9-letter words containing l, e, b, r
- hellbroth — a magical broth prepared for an evil purpose, as in black magic.
- hellebore — any of several plants of the genus Helleborus, of the buttercup family, having basal leaves and clusters of flowers, especially H. niger, the Christmas rose.
- herbalism — The study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, now especially as a form of alternative medicine.
- herbalist — a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
- herbology — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- heritable — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- heritably — In a heritable manner.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- honorable — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- horribley — Misspelling of horribly.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
- iberville — Pierre le Moyne [pyer luh mwan] /pyɛr lə ˈmwan/ (Show IPA), Sieur, 1661–1706, French naval officer, born in Canada: founder of the first French settlement in Louisiana, 1699.
- ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- illiberal — narrowminded; bigoted.
- imbrangle — embrangle.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- indurable — Archaic form of endurable.
- inerrable — Incapable of error; infallible.
- inferable — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- inferably — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- inselberg — monadnock (def 1).
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- interclub — a heavy stick, usually thicker at one end than at the other, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- iron blue — any of the class of blue pigments having a high tinting strength and ranging in shade and in coloring properties from reddish blue to jet blue: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and printing inks.
- irratable — Misspelling of irritable.
- irrigable — capable of being irrigated.
- irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
- jailbreak — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- jarlsberg — a hard mild-tasting yellow-coloured cheese with holes in it
- jerubbaal — Gideon (def 1).
- jobernowl — a stupid person; blockhead
- jobholder — a person who has a regular or steady job.
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
- kimberley — a city in E Cape of Good Hope province, in the central Republic of South Africa: diamond mines.
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- laberinth — (obsolete) labyrinth.
- laberynth — Obsolete spelling of labyrinth.
- laborites — Plural form of laborite.
- laborsome — Alternative form of laboursome.
- labourers — Plural form of labourer.
- labourite — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- lambaréné — a town in W Gabon on the Ogooué River: site of the hospital built by Albert Schweitzer, who died and was buried there (1965). Pop: 9000 (2003 est)
- lamebrain — a dunce; booby; fool.
- laterborn — born later
- lauenburg — a region in Schleswig-Holstein, in NW Germany: duchy under German rulers 1260–1689; later part of Prussia.
- layerable — one of several items of clothing worn one on top of the other.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- lean-burn — (esp of an internal-combustion engine) designed to use a lean mixture of fuel and air in order to reduce petrol consumption and exhaust emissions