9-letter words containing e, i, r
- brooklime — either of two blue-flowered scrophulariaceous trailing plants, Veronica americana of North America or V. beccabunga of Europe and Asia, growing in moist places
- brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
- browridge — the ridge of bone over the eye sockets
- brushfire — a fire in bushes and scrub
- brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
- brutelike — beastlike, brutish
- bucuresti — Bucharest
- buffering — temporary storage of data
- bullbrier — a prickly vine of the genus Smilax, with small green flowers and inedible black berries
- bunkering — a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box: a coal bunker.
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
- burnsides — thick side whiskers worn with a moustache and clean-shaven chin
- buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
- butterine — an artificial butter made partly from milk
- buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
- by-bidder — a bidder at an auction who bids up the price of an item for the benefit of a seller
- cabdriver — a taxi driver
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
- cadaveric — a dead body, especially a human body to be dissected; corpse.
- caesarian — of or relating to a Cesarean.
- caesarism — an autocratic system of government
- cafe noir — black coffee
- cafeteria — A cafeteria is a restaurant where you choose your food from a counter and take it to your table after paying for it. Cafeterias are usually found in public buildings such as hospitals and stores.
- cafetiere — A cafetière is a type of coffee pot that has a disk with small holes in it attached to the lid. You push the lid down to separate the liquid from the ground coffee when it is ready to drink.
- cage bird — a pet bird kept in a cage
- cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
- calcarine — resembling, related to, or having a calcar
- calendric — Of or pertaining to a calendar.
- calibered — the diameter of something of circular section, especially that of the inside of a tube: a pipe of three-inch caliber.
- calibrate — If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
- calipered — Simple past tense and past participle of caliper.
- caller id — A telephone that has caller ID displays the telephone number and name of the person who is calling you.
- callipers — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calvaries — Plural form of calvary.
- cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
- cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
- camelhair — the hair of the camel or dromedary, used in clothing, rugs, etc
- campering — a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- campfires — Plural form of campfire.
- cancerian — a person born under the sign of Cancer, usually between June 21 and July 22.
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- canisters — Plural form of canister.
- cankering — a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
- canneries — Plural form of cannery.
- cannister — Misspelling of canister.
- cannonier — Alternative form of cannoneer.
- canonizer — a person who canonizes