9-letter words containing e, y, b, r
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- brotherly — A man's brotherly feelings are feelings of love and loyalty which you expect a brother to show.
- brusquely — abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
- bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
- budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.
- buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
- burleycue — burlesque (def 3).
- butcherly — of or resembling a butcher
- butterfly — A butterfly is an insect with large colourful wings and a thin body.
- by george — a figure of St. George killing the dragon, especially one forming part of the insignia of the Order of the Garter.
- by nature — essentially or innately
- by repute — If you know someone by repute, you have never met them but you have heard or read about them.
- by return — by the next post back to the sender
- by-bidder — a bidder at an auction who bids up the price of an item for the benefit of a seller
- by-street — a side street or a private or obscure street; byway.
- bypassers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- c battery — the power source for biasing the control-grid electrodes of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- carryable — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- celebrity — A celebrity is someone who is famous, especially in areas of entertainment such as films, music, writing, or sport.
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- city-bred — reared in a city.
- coercibly — in a coercible way
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.