9-letter words containing i, l, b, r
- calabrian — of or relating to Calabria or its inhabitants
- 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.
- carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
- carbolize — to treat or sterilize with phenol
- carriable — 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.
- charbroil — to grill (meat) over charcoal
- claiborne — a male given name.
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- coercible — to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition: They coerced him into signing the document.
- coercibly — in a coercible way
- colubriad — a poem about a snake
- colubrine — of or resembling a snake
- corbeille — corbeil.
- corbeling — the fashioning of corbels
- corbicula — pollen basket.
- courbaril — a tropical American leguminous tree, Hymenaea courbaril. Its wood is a useful timber and its gum is a source of copal
- credibley — Misspelling of credibly.
- crib-wall — a supporting wall constructed by laying cribs at right angles to each other, as in cribwork
- cribellar — of or relating to the cribellum of a spider
- cribellum — a sievelike spinning organ in certain spiders that occurs between the spinnerets
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- crossbill — any of various widely distributed finches of the genus Loxia, such as L. curvirostra, that occur in coniferous woods and have a bill with crossed mandible tips for feeding on conifer seeds
- crow-bill — a type of forceps used to extract bullets, etc, from wounds
- crucibles — Plural form of crucible.
- crumbling — to break into small fragments or crumbs.
- delibrate — (obsolete) To strip off the bark; to peel.
- derisible — subject to or deserving of derision; ridiculous
- derivable — to receive or obtain from a source or origin (usually followed by from).
- derivably — in a way that is able to be derived
- desirable — Something that is desirable is worth having or doing because it is useful, necessary, or popular.
- desirably — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- diablerie — magic or witchcraft connected with devils
- dilberted — (jargon) To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character. "I've been dilberted again. The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week."
- dirigible — an airship.
- disablers — Plural form of disabler.
- disbursal — The act of disbursing money.
- dollybird — an attractive and fashionable girl, esp one who is considered to be unintelligent
- dormobile — a vanlike vehicle specially equipped for living in while travelling
- drabbling — Present participle of drabble.
- drainable — Capable of being drained.
- dribbling — Present participle of dribble.
- driftbolt — Also called driftpin. a spike having a round shank and used for fastening heavy timbers together.
- drill bit — bit1 (defs 1a, b).
- drillable — Machinery, Building Trades. a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, especially by rotation. a tool, especially a hand tool, for holding and operating such a tool.
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- driveable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- dubliners — a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce.