9-letter words containing r, o, b
- borescope — a long narrow optical device used to inspect the interior of a tight space
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- borghetto — (in Italy) a settlement outside a city's walls
- boris iii — 1894–1943, king of Bulgaria 1918–43.
- born-free — (in South Africa) a person who was born or grew up after the end of the Apartheid era
- 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.
- bosberaad — a meeting in an isolated venue to break a political deadlock
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- 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.
- 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
- boulderer — a rock climber
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
- bound for — going or intending to go; on the way to; destined (usually followed by for): The train is bound for Denver.
- bourasque — a tempest
- bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
- bourgogne — Burgundy2
- 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
- bow doors — the doors in the bow of a ferry, which open for vehicles to drive on and off
- bow front — swell front.
- bow-front — having a front with a convex curve
- bowerbird — any of various songbirds of the family Ptilonorhynchidae, of Australia and New Guinea. The males build bower-like display grounds in the breeding season to attract the females
- bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
- bowl over — To bowl someone over means to push into them and make them fall to the ground.
- bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
- box elder — a medium-sized fast-growing widely cultivated North American maple, Acer negundo, which has compound leaves with lobed leaflets
- box frame — Architecture. a monolithic reinforced-concrete structure having walls and floors in the form of slabs.
- box score — In baseball and basketball, a box score is a printed table of statistics showing how each player performed in a game.
- 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.
- box-fresh — unused or unspoiled; straight from the packaging
- boxercise — a system of sustained exercises combining boxing movements with aerobic activities
- boxholder — a person who has rented or subscribed for a box, as at a theatrical performance, sporting event, or the like.
- boxkeeper — an attendant responsible for theatre boxes
- boy racer — British journalists sometimes refer to young men who drive very fast, especially in expensive and powerful cars, as boy racers.
- boycotter — a person who boycotts
- boyfriend — Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship.
- boyshorts — women's underpants which resemble close-fitting shorts, sitting below the waist and stretching to the tops of the legs
- 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)