9-letter words containing i, n, r, e
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- baseliner — a player who plays most of his or her shots from the back of court
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- be in for — If you say that someone is in for a shock or a surprise, you mean that they are going to experience it.
- beaneries — Plural form of beanery.
- bearnaise — rich sauce made from egg yolks, lemon juice or wine vinegar, butter, shallots, herbs, and seasoning
- bearskins — Plural form of bearskin.
- bebeerine — an alkaloid, resembling quinine, obtained from the bark of the greenheart and other plants
- bed liner — a stiff, durable plastic lining used to protect the bed and side walls of the cargo space of some pickup trucks
- bedridden — Someone who is bedridden is so ill or has such a severe disability that they cannot get out of bed.
- bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
- beggaring — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- benefiter — a person who derives benefit
- benighter — a person who keeps others in darkness
- berberine — a yellow bitter-tasting alkaloid obtained from barberry and other plants and used medicinally, esp in tonics. Formula: C20H19NO5
- bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- berezniki — a city in E Russia: chemical industries. Pop: 169 000 (2005 est)
- berg wind — a hot dry wind in South Africa blowing from the plateau down to the coast
- bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
- bernhardi — Friedrich A. J. von [free-drikh fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1849–1930, German general.
- bernoulli — Daniel (danjɛl), son of Jean Bernoulli. 1700–82, Swiss mathematician and physicist, who developed an early form of the kinetic theory of gases and stated the principle of conservation of energy in fluid dynamics
- bernstein — Leonard. 1918–90, US conductor and composer, whose works include The Age of Anxiety (1949), the score of the musical West Side Story (1957), and Mass (1971)
- bertillon — Alphonse [al-fons,, -fonz;; French al-fawns] /ˈæl fɒns,, -fɒnz;; French alˈfɔ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1853–1914, French anthropologist: devised Bertillon system.
- beta iron — a nonmagnetic allotrope of pure iron stable between 770°C and 910°C
- bettering — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- bicentric — having two centres
- bickering — to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
- bigeneric — (of a hybrid plant) derived from parents of two different genera
- bin liner — A bin liner is a plastic bag that you put inside a waste bin or dustbin.
- bind over — If someone is bound over by a court or a judge, they are given an order and must do as the order says for a particular period of time.
- binervate — (of leaves) having two longitudinal ribs
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- bioenergy — the renewable energy derived from biological sources
- bioparent — a biological parent
- bioregion — a natural ecological community in which the biodiversity and ecosystem are distinct
- biosensor — a biological device used to detect specific chemical presence
- birlieman — a judge dealing with local law
- birthname — a name given at birth
- bittering — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- bitternut — an E North American hickory tree, Carya cordiformis, with thin-shelled nuts and bitter kernels
- bjoerling — Jussi [yoo s-ee] /ˈyʊs i/ (Show IPA), 1911–60, Swedish tenor.
- blinkered — A blinkered view, attitude, or approach is narrow and does not take into account other people's opinions. A blinkered person has this kind of attitude.
- blueliner — a machine for making blueprints
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
- bonderize — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
- bonetired — completely exhausted
- bordering — the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- botanizer — a person who botanizes