9-letter words containing s, o, r
- boyshorts — women's underpants which resemble close-fitting shorts, sitting below the waist and stretching to the tops of the legs
- brewhouse — a brewery
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
- brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
- broachers — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
- broadness — the state or character of being broad: the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
- broadside — A broadside is a strong written or spoken attack on a person or institution.
- broadwise — breadthwise
- broccolis — a form of a cultivated cruciferous plant, Brassica oleracea botrytis, whose leafy stalks and clusters of usually green buds are eaten as a vegetable.
- bromeosin — eosin (def 1).
- bronxites — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
- broodless — with no brood
- brookings — Robert Somers [suhm-erz] /ˈsʌm ərz/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- browsable — able to be browsed
- brush off — If someone brushes you off when you speak to them, they refuse to talk to you or be nice to you.
- brush-off — a refusal to talk or listen to someone; abrupt or final dismissal or rebuff.
- brushwood — Brushwood consists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.
- brushwork — An artist's brushwork is their way of using their brush to put paint on a canvas and the effect that this has in the picture.
- bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- burdenous — burdensome
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
- burrstone — buhrstone
- bursiform — shaped like a pouch or sac
- burst edo — Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
- burst out — If someone bursts out laughing, crying, or making another noise, they suddenly start making that noise. You can also say that a noise bursts out.
- bus error — (processor) A fatal failure in the execution of a machine language instruction resulting from the processor detecting an anomalous condition on its bus. Such conditions include invalid address alignment (accessing a multi-byte number at an odd address), accessing a physical address that does not correspond to any device, or some other device-specific hardware error. A bus error triggers a processor-level exception which Unix translates into a "SIGBUS" signal which, if not caught, will terminate the current process.
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- c rations — tinned food formerly issued in packs to US soldiers
- calor gas — Calor gas is gas in liquid form which is sold in special containers so that people can use it in places which are not connected to the gas supply, such as tents or caravans.
- cameroons — former region in W Africa consisting of two trust territories, French Cameroons (in 1960 forming the republic of Cameroon ) and British Cameroons (in 1961 divided between Cameroon and Nigeria)
- camporees — Plural form of camporee.
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- cankerous — having cankers
- canonries — Plural form of canonry.
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
- caracoles — Plural form of caracole.
- carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- carcajous — Plural form of carcajou.
- cardamoms — Plural form of cardamom.
- cardstock — paper stock stiff enough for the printing of business cards and similar uses.
- carillons — Plural form of carillon.