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9-letter words containing b, y, r

  • conybeare — William Daniel. 1787–1857, British geologist. He summarized all that was known about rocks at the time in Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822)
  • copybroke — (security)   /kop'ee-brohk/ (Or "copywronged" - a play on "copyright") 1. Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been "broken"; that is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disabled or removed. 2. Copy-protected software which is unusable because of some bit-rot or bug that has confused the copy protection. 3. Used to describe data damaged because of a side effect of a copy protection system.
  • corymbose — characterized by or growing in corymbs; corymblike.
  • cover boy — an attractive young man whose picture is featured on a magazine cover.
  • coxcombry — conceited arrogance or foppishness
  • cranberry — Cranberries are red berries with a sour taste. They are often used to make a sauce or jelly that you eat with meat.
  • credibley — Misspelling of credibly.
  • crowberry — a low-growing N temperate evergreen shrub, Empetrum nigrum, with small purplish flowers and black berry-like fruit: family Empetraceae
  • crybabies — Plural form of crybaby.
  • cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
  • cryocable — a highly conducting electrical cable cooled with a refrigerant such as liquid nitrogen
  • cryoprobe — a surgical instrument with an extremely cold tip, used in cryosurgery to destroy tissue
  • cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
  • currycomb — a square comb consisting of rows of small teeth, used for grooming horses
  • cyberbook — (science fiction) A digital or electronic equivalent of a book.
  • cybercafe — A cybercafé is a café where people can pay to use the Internet.
  • cybercash — Funds used in electronic financial transactions, especially over the Internet.
  • cybercast — (Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.
  • cyberchat — Chat that takes place on the Internet, as in a chatroom or via instant messages.
  • cybercity — A city with a strong basis in information technology.
  • cybercrud — (jargon)   /si:'ber-kruhd/ 1. (Coined by Ted Nelson) Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese. 2. Incomprehensible stuff embedded in e-mail. First there were the "Received" headers that show how mail flows through systems, then MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) headers and part boundaries, and now huge blocks of hex for PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) digital signatures and certificates of authenticity. This stuff all has a purpose and good user interfaces should hide it, but all too often users are forced to wade through it.
  • cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
  • cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
  • cybernate — to control (a manufacturing process) with a servomechanism or (of a process) to be controlled by a servomechanism
  • cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
  • cyberporn — any pornography accessible online or on the internet
  • cyberpunk — Cyberpunk is a type of science fiction.
  • cyberrhea — (humour, jargon)   /si:'ber-eer/ An affliction of some word processor users; excessive frequency and looseness of productivity. Particularly virulent among those who have not discovered the fortifying virtues of revision.
  • cyberself — An alternate self on the Internet or in cyberspace; an online alter-ego.
  • cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
  • cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
  • cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality)   A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
  • cyberzine — (computing) A magazine published on the Internet.
  • cybrarian — a person responsible for archives and information available on the internet
  • cymbiform — having the shape of a boat
  • day labor — workers hired on a daily basis only, especially unskilled labor.
  • daybreaks — Plural form of daybreak.
  • deerberry — any of several plants native to North America, bearing fruit that is eaten by deer
  • derivably — in a way that is able to be derived
  • desirably — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
  • dihybrids — Plural form of dihybrid.
  • disobeyer — One who disobeys.
  • dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
  • dogberrys — a foolish constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
  • dollybird — an attractive and fashionable girl, esp one who is considered to be unintelligent
  • drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
  • dry basis — The dry basis is a measure of how much water is in a solid, which is expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the completely dry solid.
  • duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
  • dyersburg — a city in W Tennessee.
  • ebriosity — the state of being regularly drunk
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