9-letter words containing r, i, b, o, n
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- borromini — Francesco, original name Francesco Castelli. 1599–1667, Italian baroque architect, working in Rome: his buildings include the churches of San Carlo (1641) and Sant' Ivo (1660)
- borrowing — Borrowing is the activity of borrowing money.
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
- boyfriend — Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship.
- 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.
- branchio- — gills
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
- brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
- bring off — If you bring off something difficult, you do it successfully.
- bring out — When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
- bringdown — a disappointment
- brittonic — Brythonic
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- brokering — the work of a broker or brokerage
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
- bromeosin — eosin (def 1).
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- bronxites — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
- brookings — Robert Somers [suhm-erz] /ˈsʌm ərz/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- bupropion — an antidepressant drug used to help people stop smoking
- burrowing — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
- carbanion — a negatively charged organic ion in which most of the negative charge is localized on a carbon atom
- carbonari — a secret political society with liberal republican aims, originating in S Italy about 1811 and particularly engaged in the struggle for Italian unification
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- carbonize — to turn or be turned into carbon as a result of heating, fossilization, chemical treatment, etc
- city-born — born in a city.
- claiborne — a male given name.
- colubrine — of or resembling a snake
- conscribe — to conscript
- corbeling — the fashioning of corbels
- cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
- corncribs — Plural form of corncrib.
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- disrobing — Present participle of disrobe.
- dobber-in — an informant or traitor
- dubrovnik — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: resort.