9-letter words containing c, b, r, a
- rubricate — to mark or color with red.
- rubrician — an expert in or close adherent to liturgical rubrics.
- rudbeckia — any composite plant of the genus Rudbeckia, having alternate leaves and showy flower heads.
- sand crab — any of several crabs that live on sandy beaches, as the ghost crab or mole crab.
- sarbacane — a type of blowpipe
- scaraboid — of, relating to, or resembling a scarabaeid
- scrabbled — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrambler — a person or thing that scrambles.
- scrapable — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scrapbook — an album in which pictures, newspaper clippings, etc., may be pasted or mounted.
- scrape by — If someone scrapes by, they earn just enough money to live on with difficulty.
- screwable — able to be screwed
- screwball — Slang. an eccentric or whimsically eccentric person; a nut.
- screwbean — a small tree or shrub of the south-western United States that has edible pods
- scribable — able to be written or written on
- scrub jay — a crestless jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens, of the western and southern U.S. and Mexico, having blue and grayish plumage.
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- securable — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- slice bar — a long-handled instrument with a blade at the end, for clearing away or breaking up clinkers, coal, etc., in a furnace.
- snack bar — a lunchroom or restaurant where light meals are sold.
- snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
- space bar — a horizontal bar on a typewriter keyboard that is depressed in order to resume typing one space to the right.
- space-bar — a horizontal bar on a typewriter keyboard that is depressed in order to resume typing one space to the right.
- subarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.
- subbranch — a subordinate branch or a branch of a branch, as of a bank, business, or the like.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- subcellar — a cellar below the main cellar.
- subchaser — submarine chaser.
- subocular — below or under the eye
- subsacral — below the sacrum or bone at the back of the pelvis
- suribachi — an extinct volcano on Iwo Jima island: World War II battle 1945.
- sybaritic — (usually lowercase) pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure: to wallow in sybaritic splendor.
- tackboard — a large board, usually made of cork or soft wood, on which notices can be tacked.
- thornback — a skate, Raja clavata, of European waters, having short spines on the back and tail.
- throwback — an act of throwing back.
- torchable — able to be torched or set alight
- trabecula — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- traceable — capable of being traced.
- trackable — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- trackball — a computer input device for controlling the pointer on a display screen by rotating a ball set inside a case.
- tractable — easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding: a tractable child; a tractable disposition.
- truckable — (of a barge, tug, etc) capable or suitable for being conveyed in or on a truck
- tub chair — an easy chair having a semicircular back and, with the wings or arms, forming a single upholstered piece.
- tubercula — a tubercle.
- tubicolar — living in a self-constructed tube
- turn back — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- umbracula — umbrella-like structures