9-letter words containing y, a, r, b
- carryback — (in U.S. income-tax law) a special provision allowing part of a net loss or of an unused credit in a given year to be apportioned over one or two preceding years, chiefly in order to ease the tax burden. Compare carry·forward (def 2).
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- colorably — in a colourable manner
- columbary — a dovecote
- conybeare — William Daniel. 1787–1857, British geologist. He summarized all that was known about rocks at the time in Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822)
- cranberry — Cranberries are red berries with a sour taste. They are often used to make a sauce or jelly that you eat with meat.
- crybabies — Plural form of crybaby.
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cryocable — a highly conducting electrical cable cooled with a refrigerant such as liquid nitrogen
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- cybercafe — A cybercafé is a café where people can pay to use the Internet.
- cybercash — Funds used in electronic financial transactions, especially over the Internet.
- cybercast — (Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.
- cyberchat — Chat that takes place on the Internet, as in a chatroom or via instant messages.
- cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
- cybernate — to control (a manufacturing process) with a servomechanism or (of a process) to be controlled by a servomechanism
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
- cyberrhea — (humour, jargon) /si:'ber-eer/ An affliction of some word processor users; excessive frequency and looseness of productivity. Particularly virulent among those who have not discovered the fortifying virtues of revision.
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- cybrarian — a person responsible for archives and information available on the internet
- day labor — workers hired on a daily basis only, especially unskilled labor.
- daybreaks — Plural form of daybreak.
- derivably — in a way that is able to be derived
- desirably — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- dry basis — The dry basis is a measure of how much water is in a solid, which is expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the completely dry solid.
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- embracery — the offence of attempting by corrupt means to influence a jury or juror, as by bribery or threats
- embryonal — Embryonic.
- endurably — In an endurable or tolerable manner.
- execrably — In an execrable way.
- farcy bud — an ulcerated swelling, produced in farcy.
- favorably — characterized by approval or support; positive: a favorable report.
- ferryboat — a boat used to transport passengers, vehicles, etc., across a river or the like.
- fry bread — a flat wheat bread made by North American Indians of the SW U.S., that is cooked by frying in deep fat until light brown and puffed on both sides
- gallberry — either of two North American shrubs, Ilex glabra, the inkberry, or I. coriacea, having glossy leaves and white flowers.
- garbology — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- grandbaby — an infant grandchild.
- gray body — any body that emits radiation at each wavelength in a constant ratio less than unity to that emitted by a black body at the same temperature.
- graybacks — Plural form of grayback.
- graybeard — Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
- green bay — an arm of Lake Michigan, in NE Wisconsin. 120 miles (195 km) long.
- greybeard — Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
- guayabera — a sport shirt or lightweight jacket, often with several large front pockets, modeled upon a loose, smocklike shirt originally worn by men in Cuba.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- hackberry — any of several trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Celtis, of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit.
- hansberry — Lorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.
- heritably — In a heritable manner.