9-letter words containing c, b, r, a
- mozarabic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Mozarabs: Mozarabic culture.
- neckbrace — (emergency medicine) An orthopedic device used to support the neck and head of those with neck or head injuries.
- obamacare — a federal law providing for a fundamental reform of the U.S. healthcare and health insurance system, signed by President Barack Obama in 2010: formally called Affordable Care Act or Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
- obcordate — heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end, as a leaf.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obsecrate — to entreat solemnly; beseech; supplicate.
- orbicular — like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- packboard — a rigid wooden or metal frame, covered with fabric and having shoulder straps, to which equipment can be strapped for carrying.
- palm crab — coconut crab.
- panic bar — a bar that spans an emergency exit door on its interior and opens the latch when pressure is applied.
- paperback — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- parabolic — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- pardubice — a city in N central Czech Republic, on the Elbe River.
- perceable — pierceable
- peribonca — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing S to Lake St. John. 280 miles (451 km) long.
- pinch bar — a kind of crowbar or lever with a projection that serves as a fulcrum.
- priceable — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- procambia — plant part in stem and root
- pub crawl — visit to a series of bars
- pub-crawl — to have drinks at one bar after another.
- quebracho — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Schinopsis, having very hard wood, especially S. lorentzii, the wood and bark of which are important in tanning and dyeing.
- rabbinics — the Hebrew language as used by rabbis in post-Biblical times.
- raceabout — a small, sloop-rigged racing yacht with a short bowsprit.
- rackboard — a board with holes into which organ pipes are fitted.
- radio cab — a taxi or cab equipped with a radio for communication
- razorback — a finback or rorqual.
- reachable — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
- rebalance — to balance (something) again
- rechabite — a total abstainer from alcoholic drink, esp a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a society devoted to abstention
- recitable — to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner: to recite a lesson.
- rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
- rerebrace — a piece of plate armor for the upper arm; an upper cannon. Compare vambrace (def 1).
- revocable — that may be revoked.
- revocably — that may be revoked.
- rheobasic — of or relating to rheobase
- rice bean — a twining southern Asian vine, Vigna umbellata, of the legume family, cultivated for its edible seeds.
- ridgeback — Rhodesian ridgeback.
- ring back — If you ring someone back, you phone them either because they phoned you earlier and you were not there or because you did not finish an earlier telephone conversation.
- roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- rocambole — a European plant, Allium scorodoprasum, of the amaryllis family, used like garlic.
- rock band — heavy pop music group
- rock bass — a game fish, Ambloplites rupestris, of the sunfish family, inhabiting freshwater streams of the eastern U.S.
- rock crab — any of several crabs that live along rocky beaches, especially those of the genus Cancer, as C. irroratus, of the eastern coast of North America, having the rear legs modified for running.
- roll back — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
- roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.