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

  • indurable — Archaic form of endurable.
  • 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.
  • intraclub — Within a club.
  • 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.
  • laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
  • labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
  • labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
  • labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
  • labourite — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
  • limber up — characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe.
  • limburger — a variety of soft white cheese of strong odor and flavor.
  • litterbug — a person who litters public places with items of refuse: Litterbugs had thrown beer cans on the picnic grounds.
  • louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
  • lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
  • lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • lubricity — oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
  • lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
  • lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
  • lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
  • lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
  • manubrial — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
  • mislabour — to labour wrongly
  • muliebral — womanly nature or qualities.
  • nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
  • nebuliser — Alternative spelling of nebulizer.
  • nebulizer — to reduce to fine spray; atomize.
  • orbicular — like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.
  • overbuild — to erect too many buildings in (an area).
  • overbuilt — Simple past tense and past participle of overbuild.
  • pillsbury — Charles Alfred, 1842–99, U.S. businessman.
  • politburo — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • pre-build — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
  • prenubile — of the period from birth to puberty
  • publisher — a person or company whose business is the publishing of books, periodicals, engravings, computer software, etc.
  • rebuilded — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
  • reducible — capable of being reduced.
  • republish — to publish again: to republish a bestseller in a special illustrated edition.
  • rib vault — a vault supported by or decorated with diagonal ribs.
  • roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
  • rubellite — a deep-red variety of tourmaline, used as a gem.
  • rubicelle — a variety of the mineral spinel that is orange or yellow in colour
  • salisbury — Harrison, 1908–93, U.S. journalist and writer.
  • salubrity — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
  • scrubbily — in a scrubby or messy manner
  • strobilus — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
  • subaerial — located or occurring on the surface of the earth.
  • sublinear — of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.
  • subprimal — (of meat) being a cut of meat larger than a steak, roast, or other single cut but smaller than a side of beef: shipped by the packer to local markets for final cutting to reduce processing costs and to retard spoilage.
  • subpurlin — a light structural member for carrying roofing materials, supported by and running at right angles to purlins.
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