9-letter words containing u, b, e, r
- beglamour — to endow with glamour
- begrudged — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
- begrudger — a dissatisfied person
- behaviour — People's or animals' behaviour is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behaviour.
- beleaguer — to trouble persistently; harass
- bengaluru — a state in S India. 70,051 sq. mi. (191,791 sq. km). Capital: Bengaluru.
- berkelium — a metallic transuranic element produced by bombardment of americium. Symbol: Bk; atomic no: 97; half-life of most stable isotope, 247Bk: 1400 years; valency: 3 or 4; relative density: 14 (est)
- bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
- bernoulli — Daniel (danjɛl), son of Jean Bernoulli. 1700–82, Swiss mathematician and physicist, who developed an early form of the kinetic theory of gases and stated the principle of conservation of energy in fluid dynamics
- beryllium — a corrosion-resistant toxic silvery-white metallic element that occurs chiefly in beryl and is used mainly in X-ray windows and in the manufacture of alloys. Symbol: Be; atomic no: 4; atomic wt: 9.012; valency: 2; relative density: 1.848; melting pt: 1289°C; boiling pt: 2472°C
- berzelius — Baron Jöns Jakob (ˈjœns ˈjɑːkɔp). 1779–1848, Swedish chemist, who invented the present system of chemical symbols and formulas, discovered several elements, and determined the atomic and molecular weight of many substances
- bev curls — long locks of hair, considered to be typical of a certain kind of unfashionable male
- bierstube — a tavern or café offering German or German-style atmosphere, décor, food, beer, etc.
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- bigarreau — any of several heart-shaped varieties of sweet cherry that have firm flesh
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- biofouler — an animal that obstructs or pollutes the environment
- bioturbed — stirred by organisms
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- bitternut — an E North American hickory tree, Carya cordiformis, with thin-shelled nuts and bitter kernels
- blue army — an organization maintaining a directory of tradesmen and checking on the quality of the service they provide.
- blue crab — any of a genus (Callinectes) of crabs, esp. a blue-legged, edible swimming species (C. sapidus) of the Atlantic coast of North America
- blue roan — a horse having a black coat sprinkled with white hairs
- blue wire — (IBM) Patch wires added to circuit boards at the factory to correct design or fabrication problems. These may be necessary if there hasn't been time to design and qualify another board version. Compare purple wire, red wire, yellow wire.
- bluebeard — a villain in European folk tales who marries several wives and murders them in turn. In many versions the seventh and last wife escapes the fate of the others
- blueberry — A blueberry is a small dark blue fruit that is found in North America. Blueberries are usually cooked before they are eaten.
- bluecurls — a name for the plant Trichostema dichotomum
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- blueliner — a machine for making blueprints
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- blundered — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blunderer — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blustered — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
- bodeguero — a wine-seller or grocer
- bordereau — a memorandum or invoice prepared for a company by an underwriter, containing a list of reinsured risks
- 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.
- 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
- bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
- break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
- breathful — full of breath; living
- bretylium — a substance, C 18 H 24 BrNO 3 S, used to treat acute ventricular arrhythmias and suppress ventricular fibrillation.
- brewhouse — a brewery
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- briquette — a small brick made of compressed coal dust, sawdust, charcoal, etc, used for fuel
- brudenell — James Thomas, the 7th Earl of Cardigan
- brummagem — something that is cheap and flashy, esp imitation jewellery