9-letter words containing r, a, b, o
- bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
- bomb rack — a device for carrying bombs in or under the fuselage of an aircraft.
- bombarded — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bombarder — a person or thing which bombards
- bombardon — a brass instrument of the tuba type, similar to a sousaphone
- bombaster — a person who stuffs or pads
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- boogerman — South Midland and Southern U.S. bogeyman.
- book fair — a commercial event at which publishers exhibit and trade books
- bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
- bookmaker — A bookmaker is a person whose job is to take your money when you bet and to pay you money if you win.
- bookmarks — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- bookpaper — the paper used in printing books, especially when of superior quality.
- boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
- bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
- bootstrap — If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone, using very few resources.
- bora bora — an island in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia, in the Society Islands: one of the Leeward Islands. Area: 39 sq km (15 sq miles)
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- bordereau — a memorandum or invoice prepared for a company by an underwriter, containing a list of reinsured risks
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- bosberaad — a meeting in an isolated venue to break a political deadlock
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- botmaster — (chat) The owner of a bot.
- boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
- bourasque — a tempest
- bourguiba — Habib ben Ali (hæˈbɪb bɛn ˈɑːlɪ). 1903–2000, Tunisian statesman: president of Tunisia (1957–87); a moderate and an advocate of gradual social change. He was deposed in a coup and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life
- bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
- box frame — Architecture. a monolithic reinforced-concrete structure having walls and floors in the form of slabs.
- boy racer — British journalists sometimes refer to young men who drive very fast, especially in expensive and powerful cars, as boy racers.
- brabancon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a short, smooth coat.
- bracteole — a secondary bract subtending a flower within an inflorescence
- bradenton — a city in W Florida.
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- brainwork — intellectual effort
- brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
- bran loaf — a rectangular cake whose ingredients include bran and dried fruit
- branchio- — gills
- brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
- brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
- breadroom — a room or compartment where bread is kept, esp on a ship
- breadroot — a leguminous plant, Psoralea esculenta, of central North America, having an edible starchy root
- break off — If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
- break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- breakover — jump (def 51).
- breakroom — a room in a workplace that is set aside for employees to use during a break from work, as to relax, socialize, or eat.
- briarroot — the hard woody root of the briar, used for making tobacco pipes
- briarwood — any of several woods used to make tobacco pipes