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9-letter words containing p, i, b, r

  • peribonca — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing S to Lake St. John. 280 miles (451 km) long.
  • piano bar — a cocktail lounge featuring live piano music.
  • pillarbox — a technique for displaying a video recorded in portrait orientation on a wider screen by reducing its size but retaining the aspect ratio, with black bands filling the screen to the right and left of the picture (often used attributively): pillarbox format. Compare letterbox (def 2).
  • pillsburyCharles Alfred, 1842–99, U.S. businessman.
  • pinballer — a person who plays pinball machines, especially regularly or habitually.
  • pinch bar — a kind of crowbar or lever with a projection that serves as a fulcrum.
  • pinky bar — a chocolate-covered marshmallow bar
  • pittsburg — a city in W California.
  • politburo — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • potboiler — a mediocre work of literature or art produced merely for financial gain.
  • pourboire — a gratuity; tip.
  • pre-build — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
  • prebiotic — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • premorbid — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
  • prenubile — of the period from birth to puberty
  • preobtain — to obtain in advance
  • presbytic — affected by presbyopia
  • prescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
  • pretibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
  • previable — occurring before a fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus
  • priceable — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
  • prime rib — beef: meat from ribs
  • print bar — a mechanism in a printer that has the template of characters to be printed.
  • print job — computer: batch of files to be printed
  • printable — capable of being printed.
  • printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
  • probation — the act of testing.
  • probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
  • probingly — with a probing approach
  • probiotic — a usually dairy food or a dietary supplement containing live bacteria that replace or add to the beneficial bacteria normally present in the gastrointestinal tract.
  • proboscis — the trunk of an elephant.
  • procambia — plant part in stem and root
  • proscribe — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
  • publisher — a person or company whose business is the publishing of books, periodicals, engravings, computer software, etc.
  • rebaptize — to baptize again
  • republish — to publish again: to republish a bestseller in a special illustrated edition.
  • saprobial — relating to saprobity
  • sharpbill — a passerine bird, Oxyruncus cristatus, of New World tropical forests, having greenish plumage and a pointed bill, related to the tyrant flycatchers.
  • shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
  • shipborne — carried on a ship.
  • snap brim — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
  • spareribs — a cut of meat from the rib section, especially of pork or beef, with some meat adhering to the bones.
  • spiderweb — to cover with a spider web or fine lines resembling a spider web.
  • spielbergSteven, born 1947, U.S. film director.
  • springbok — a gazelle, Antidorcas marsupialis, of southern Africa, noted for its habit of springing into the air when alarmed.
  • subperiod — a subdivision of a time period
  • 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.
  • subscript — written below (distinguished from adscript, superscript).
  • superbike — a high-performance motorcycle
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