9-letter words containing u, r, i
- bretylium — a substance, C 18 H 24 BrNO 3 S, used to treat acute ventricular arrhythmias and suppress ventricular fibrillation.
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- brimfully — in a brimfull manner
- 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.
- briquette — a small brick made of compressed coal dust, sawdust, charcoal, etc, used for fuel
- bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- brunching — a meal that serves as both breakfast and lunch.
- brunswick — a former duchy (1635–1918) and state (1918–46) of central Germany, now part of the state of Lower Saxony; formerly (1949–90) part of West Germany
- brushfire — a fire in bushes and scrub
- brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
- brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
- brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
- brutelike — beastlike, brutish
- bucranium — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- bucuresti — Bucharest
- buffering — temporary storage of data
- bulgarian — Bulgarian means belonging or relating to Bulgaria, or to its people, language, or culture.
- bull-ring — an arena for a bullfight.
- bullarium — a collection of papal bulls.
- bullbrier — a prickly vine of the genus Smilax, with small green flowers and inedible black berries
- bunkering — a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box: a coal bunker.
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- bupropion — an antidepressant drug used to help people stop smoking
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
- burnsides — thick side whiskers worn with a moustache and clean-shaven chin
- burrowing — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- bursarial — of, relating to, or paid by a bursar or bursary
- bursiform — shaped like a pouch or sac
- burundian — of or relating to Burundi or its inhabitants
- buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
- butterine — an artificial butter made partly from milk
- buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
- calciuria — (pathology) The presence of calcium salts in the urine (especially at an elevated level).
- caldarium — (in ancient Rome) a room for taking hot baths
- caliatour — a tropical dyewood, possibly red sandalwood
- calicular — Relating to, or resembling, a cup.
- calpurnia — flourished 1st century b.c, third wife of Julius Caesar 59–44. Compare Cornelia (def 2), Pompeia.
- calvarium — the upper, domed part of the skull
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- canicular — of or relating to the star Sirius or its rising
- capitular — of or associated with a cathedral chapter
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- carburize — to increase the carbon content of (the surface of a low-carbon steel) so that the surface can be hardened by heat treatment
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- casuarina — any tree of the genus Casuarina, of Australia and the East Indies, having jointed leafless branchlets: family Casuarinaceae
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.