9-letter words containing i, u, r, e
- 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
- beryllium — a corrosion-resistant toxic silvery-white metallic element that occurs chiefly in beryl and is used mainly in X-ray windows and in the manufacture of alloys. Symbol: Be; atomic no: 4; atomic wt: 9.012; valency: 2; relative density: 1.848; melting pt: 1289°C; boiling pt: 2472°C
- berzelius — Baron Jöns Jakob (ˈjœns ˈjɑːkɔp). 1779–1848, Swedish chemist, who invented the present system of chemical symbols and formulas, discovered several elements, and determined the atomic and molecular weight of many substances
- bierstube — a tavern or café offering German or German-style atmosphere, décor, food, beer, etc.
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- bigarreau — any of several heart-shaped varieties of sweet cherry that have firm flesh
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- biofouler — an animal that obstructs or pollutes the environment
- bioturbed — stirred by organisms
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- bitternut — an E North American hickory tree, Carya cordiformis, with thin-shelled nuts and bitter kernels
- blue wire — (IBM) Patch wires added to circuit boards at the factory to correct design or fabrication problems. These may be necessary if there hasn't been time to design and qualify another board version. Compare purple wire, red wire, yellow wire.
- 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.
- bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
- bretylium — a substance, C 18 H 24 BrNO 3 S, used to treat acute ventricular arrhythmias and suppress ventricular fibrillation.
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- briquette — a small brick made of compressed coal dust, sawdust, charcoal, etc, used for fuel
- 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.
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carburize — to increase the carbon content of (the surface of a low-carbon steel) so that the surface can be hardened by heat treatment
- cauldrife — susceptible to cold; chilly
- causeries — Plural form of causerie.
- cauteries — Plural form of cautery.
- cauterise — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery
- cauterize — If a doctor cauterizes a wound, he or she burns it with heat or with a chemical in order to close it up and prevent it from becoming infected.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- ceintures — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- censuring — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- centauric — characterized by an integration of mind and body for consciousness above the ego-self
- centumvir — one of a body of judges responsible for presiding over civil court cases
- centurial — of or relating to a Roman century
- centuried — existing for an indefinite number of centuries.
- centuries — Plural form of century.
- centurion — A centurion was an officer in the Roman army.