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9-letter words containing r, a, b

  • arbitrage — In finance, arbitrage is the activity of buying shares or currency in one financial market and selling it at a profit in another.
  • arbitrary — If you describe an action, rule, or decision as arbitrary, you think that it is not based on any principle, plan, or system. It often seems unfair because of this.
  • arbitrate — When someone in authority arbitrates between two people or groups who are in dispute, they consider all the facts and make an official decision about who is right.
  • arbitress — a female arbitrator
  • arbitrium — the power to decide
  • arbor day — a tree-planting day observed individually by the states of the U.S., usually in spring
  • arboreous — thickly wooded; having many trees
  • arboretum — An arboretum is a specially designed garden of different types of trees.
  • arborists — Plural form of arborist.
  • arborized — Simple past tense and past participle of arborize.
  • arboviral — caused by an arbovirus
  • arbovirus — any one of a group of viruses that cause such diseases as encephalitis and dengue and are transmitted to humans by arthropods, esp insects and ticks
  • arbuthnot — John. 1667–1735, Scottish physician and satirist: author of The History of John Bull (1712) and, with others, of the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1741)
  • arbutuses — Plural form of arbutus.
  • arch beam — a crowned metal beam, as of the deck of a ship.
  • archabbey — An abbey which is the seat of an archabbot (high monastic rank within an order or congregation).
  • archabbot — In certain Catholic (notably Benedictine) congregations, the title of the general superior, ranking above all other abbots, vested in a particular abbey, which hence is called an archabbey (usually its motherhouse, such as Beuron, which gave its name to a Benedictine congregation).
  • archebanc — a bench or settle of the medieval and Renaissance periods, wide enough for several persons and having a seat with a chest beneath, arms at the ends, and a high back.
  • archibald — a masculine name: dim. Archie, Archy
  • army base — a centre from which military activities are coordinated
  • army brat — a daughter or son of a career U.S. Army officer or enlisted person, esp. one raised in military communities
  • arousable — able to be aroused
  • arquebuse — A sort of trigger-based handgun or firearm, by which a burning match was applied, from which the musket was derived.
  • artmobile — a truck trailer outfitted to transport and exhibit works of art in areas without access to museums.
  • aryballos — a small narrow-necked vessel or bottle shaped like a sphere, used in ancient Greece to store oil or perfume
  • aryballus — aryballos.
  • ascerbate — Misspelling of acerbate.
  • ascorbate — a salt of ascorbic acid
  • ascribing — Present participle of ascribe.
  • ashburton — 1st Baron, Baring, Alexander.
  • assembler — An assembler is a person, a machine, or a company which assembles the individual parts of a vehicle or a piece of equipment such as a computer.
  • astrolabe — an instrument used by early astronomers to measure the altitude of stars and planets and also as a navigational aid. It consists of a graduated circular disc with a movable sighting device
  • attleboro — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • attribute — If you attribute something to an event or situation, you think that it was caused by that event or situation.
  • aubergine — An aubergine is a vegetable with a smooth, dark purple skin.
  • aubrietia — any trailing purple-flowered plant of the genus Aubrieta, native to European mountains but widely planted in rock gardens: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • auger bit — an auger having a square tang at its upper end and rotated by a brace, used for boring through wood.
  • aurangzeb — 1618–1707, Mogul emperor of Hindustan (1658–1707), whose reign marked both the height of Mogul prosperity and the decline of its power through the revolts of the Marathas
  • aurobindo — Sri (Sri Aurobindo Ghose) 1872–1950, Indian scholar and spiritual leader.
  • aurungzeb — Aurangzeb
  • averrable — able to be proved or verified
  • avertable — Preventable.
  • avertible — Capable of being averted; preventable.
  • avicebron — (Solomon ben Judah ibn-Gabirol) 1021?–58, Jewish poet and philosopher in Spain.
  • awardable — Capable of being awarded.
  • ayckbourn — Sir Alan. born 1939, English dramatist. His plays include Absurd Person Singular (1973), the trilogy The Norman Conquests (1974), A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), House and Garden (2000), and Private Fears in Public Places (2004)
  • aylesbury — a town in SE central England, administrative centre of Buckinghamshire. Pop: 69 021 (2001)
  • b battery — the power source for the plate and screen-grid electrodes of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment
  • b bursary — the lower of two bursaries available for students entering university, polytechnic, etc
  • baal kore — an official in the synagogue, as a cantor, who reads the weekly portion of the Torah.
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