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9-letter words containing l, i, b, e, r

  • birlieman — a judge dealing with local law
  • bizarrely — markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character and often involving incongruous or unexpected elements; outrageously or whimsically strange; odd: bizarre clothing; bizarre behavior. Synonyms: weird, freakish, grotesque; fantastic; unusual, strange, odd.
  • bjoerling — Jussi [yoo s-ee] /ˈyʊs i/ (Show IPA), 1911–60, Swedish tenor.
  • blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
  • blemisher — a person or thing that blemishes
  • 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.
  • blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
  • 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.
  • boardlike — resembling a board
  • boil over — When a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises and flows over the edge of the container.
  • boil-over — an unexpected result.
  • boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
  • bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
  • brainless — If you describe someone or something as brainless, you mean that you think they are stupid.
  • brasilein — brazilein
  • brazilein — a red crystalline solid obtained by the oxidation of brazilin and used as a dye. Formula: C16H12O5
  • breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
  • bretylium — a substance, C 18 H 24 BrNO 3 S, used to treat acute ventricular arrhythmias and suppress ventricular fibrillation.
  • bricklike — resembling a brick
  • bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
  • bridewell — a house of correction; jail, esp for minor offences
  • bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
  • briefless — (said of a barrister) without clients
  • brineless — without brine
  • briolette — a pear-shaped gem cut with long triangular facets
  • broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
  • bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
  • bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
  • bromfieldLouis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
  • brooklike — resembling a brook
  • brooklime — either of two blue-flowered scrophulariaceous trailing plants, Veronica americana of North America or V. beccabunga of Europe and Asia, growing in moist places
  • brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
  • brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
  • brutelike — beastlike, brutish
  • bullbrier — a prickly vine of the genus Smilax, with small green flowers and inedible black berries
  • cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
  • 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.
  • claiborne — a male given name.
  • 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
  • colubrine — of or resembling a snake
  • corbeille — corbeil.
  • corbeling — the fashioning of corbels
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