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).
- pillsbury — Charles 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.
- spielberg — Steven, 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