9-letter words containing r, o, b, t, e
- betterton — Thomas, 1635?–1710, English actor and dramatist.
- bimotored — having two engines.
- biometric — Biometric tests and devices use biological information about a person to create a detailed record of their personal characteristics.
- bioparent — a biological parent
- biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
- biostrome — a rock layer consisting of a deposit of organic material, such as fossils
- bioturbed — stirred by organisms
- bloatware — computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements
- blootered — intoxicated; drunk
- boat ride — a ride in a boat
- bogometer — (humour) /boh-gom'-*t-er/ A notional instrument for measuring bogosity. Compare the "wankometer" described in the wank entry.
- bolometer — a sensitive instrument for measuring radiant energy by the increase in the resistance of an electrical conductor
- bolstered — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bombaster — a person who stuffs or pads
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- bonetired — completely exhausted
- book rest — a support for an open book, usually holding it at a slight angle.
- bookstore — A bookstore is a shop where books are sold.
- boot tree — a shoetree for a boot, often having supports to stretch the leg of the boot
- bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- borghetto — (in Italy) a settlement outside a city's walls
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- botmaster — (chat) The owner of a bot.
- bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
- box store — a retail store that sells a limited assortment of basic grocery items, often, as at a warehouse, displayed in their original cartons in order to lower costs and prices.
- boycotter — a person who boycotts
- bracteole — a secondary bract subtending a flower within an inflorescence
- bradenton — a city in W Florida.
- brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
- breadroot — a leguminous plant, Psoralea esculenta, of central North America, having an edible starchy root
- break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
- bremerton — a city in W Washington, on Puget Sound: navy yard.
- brentwood — a residential town in SE England, in SW Essex near London. Pop: 47 593 (2001)
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- brierroot — brier2 (sense 2)
- brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
- briolette — a pear-shaped gem cut with long triangular facets
- brochette — a skewer or small spit, used for holding pieces of meat, etc, while roasting or grilling
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- bronxites — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
- brotherly — A man's brotherly feelings are feelings of love and loyalty which you expect a brother to show.
- bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- burrstone — buhrstone
- burst edo — Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
- cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
- canrobert — François Certain [frahn-swa ser-tan] /frɑ̃ˈswa sɛrˈtɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1809–95, French marshal.
- carbonate — Carbonate is used in the names of some substances that are formed from carbonic acid, which is a compound of carbon dioxide and water.