9-letter words containing e, s, r
- backshore — the area of a beach above the usual high tide mark
- backspeir — to cross-examine, interrogate
- bacterias — (US) Plural form of bacteria.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- bad-press — to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
- badassery — (slang) The behaviour or quality of a badass.
- bagpipers — Plural form of bagpiper.
- balancers — Plural form of balancer.
- balikesir — city in NW Asiatic Turkey: pop. 173,000
- ballaster — someone who supplies ballast for a ship; someone who ballasts
- ballister — (obsolete) A crossbow.
- balloters — Plural form of balloter.
- balusters — Plural form of baluster.
- banisters — the railing and supporting balusters on a staircase; balustrade
- bankerish — resembling or befitting a banker, especially in being perceived as reserved and conservative in dress and demeanor: a model of bankerish decorum.
- bannerets — Plural form of banneret.
- bannerols — Plural form of bannerol.
- bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert). born 1929, British athlete and doctor: first man to run a mile in under four minutes (1954)
- barbastel — a type of insectivorous forest bat, Barbastellus communis, native to Europe and known for its hairy lips
- barbecues — Plural form of barbecue.
- barbeques — Plural form of barbeque.
- barbicels — Plural form of barbicel.
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- barmaster — (historical) A local judge among miners.
- barminess — the quality of being barmy; craziness
- barnacles — nose pincers for controlling an unruly horse
- baroscope — any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
- barrettes — Plural form of barrette.
- barrister — In England and Wales, a barrister is a lawyer who represents clients in the higher courts of law. Compare solicitor.
- base form — the simplest form of a word, to which inflections may be added
- base pair — a pair of bases consisting of the pyrimidine base of one nucleotide joined by a hydrogen bond to the complementary purine base of another nucleotide: such pairs form the links between the two strands of DNA and of double-stranded RNA
- base rate — In Britain, the base rate is the rate of interest that banks use as a basis when they are calculating the rates that they charge on loans.
- base year — a year used as an index for some phenomenon measured in other years
- baseboard — A baseboard is a narrow length of wood which goes along the bottom of a wall in a room and makes a border between the walls and the floor.
- baseliner — a player who plays most of his or her shots from the back of court
- basketeer — Someone who makes baskets; a basketmaker.
- basrelief — Alternative form of bas-relief.
- bathrobes — Plural form of bathrobe.
- batterers — Plural form of batterer.
- batteries — a beating together of the calves or feet during a leap.
- battersea — a district in London, in Wandsworth: noted for its dogs' home, power station (now a leisure centre), and park
- bay shore — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- beaneries — Plural form of beanery.
- bear arms — A person's right to bear arms is their right to own and use guns, as a means of defence.
- beardfish — any of several fishes of the family Polymyxiidae, found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, having a pair of long barbels under the chin.
- beardless — without a beard
- beardsley — Aubrey (Vincent). 1872–98, English illustrator: noted for his stylized black-and-white illustrations, esp those for Oscar Wilde's Salome and Pope's Rape of the Lock