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9-letter words containing y, a, r, b

  • rotatably — to cause to turn around an axis or center point; revolve.
  • rye bread — bread that is made either entirely or partly from rye flour, often with caraway seeds.
  • sainsbury — David John, Baron. born 1940, British businessman and politician, chief executive of the Sainsbury supermarket chain (1992–98); science minister (1998–2006)
  • salisburyHarrison, 1908–93, U.S. journalist and writer.
  • salubrity — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
  • scrape by — If someone scrapes by, they earn just enough money to live on with difficulty.
  • scrub jay — a crestless jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens, of the western and southern U.S. and Mexico, having blue and grayish plumage.
  • shadberry — the fruit of a shadbush.
  • shark bay — a large inlet on the W coast of Western Australia, 800 km (500 miles) north of Perth; the coastline is over 1500 km (930 miles) long and has two large shallow embayments and numerous islands; noted for its large sea-grass beds, stromatolites, and colonies of dugong; a World Heritage site. Area: 2.2 million hectares. Pop: 900 (2014 est)
  • sissy bar — a tall, looplike frame fitted to the rear of a bicycle or motorcycle saddle, functioning chiefly as a backrest.
  • soapberry — the fruit of any of certain tropical or subtropical trees of the genus Sapindus, especially S. saponaria, used as a substitute for soap.
  • spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
  • star ruby — a ruby that resembles a starlike figure in reflected light because of its crystalline structure
  • subahdary — the position or office of subadar
  • sublunary — situated beneath the moon or between the earth and the moon.
  • substylar — of or relating to a substyle
  • superably — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
  • superbaby — an infant whose mental development and language acquisition are stimulated and presumably accelerated by certain teaching methods.
  • sybaritic — (usually lowercase) pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure: to wallow in sybaritic splendor.
  • syllabary — a list or catalog of syllables.
  • tabularly — of, relating to, or arranged in a table or systematic arrangement by columns, rows, etc., as statistics.
  • tea-berry — the spicy red fruit of the American wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.
  • tolerably — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
  • tommy bar — a short bar used as a lever to provide torque for tightening a box spanner or key
  • tributary — a stream that flows to a larger stream or other body of water.
  • venerably — commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress.
  • verbality — wordiness; verbal diffuseness: a speech full of tedious verbality.
  • veritably — being truly or very much so: a veritable triumph.
  • vibrantly — moving to and fro rapidly; vibrating.
  • vibratory — capable of or producing vibration.
  • walbrzych — a city in SW Poland, in Silesia.
  • water boy — a person who carries a canteen or bucket of drinking water to those too occupied to fetch it, as to soldiers, laborers, or football players.
  • waterbody — Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.
  • waterbury — a city in W Connecticut.
  • wałbrzych — an industrial city in SW Poland. Pop: 176 000 (2005 est)
  • xylorimba — A pitched percussion instrument corresponding to a xylophone with an extended range.
  • yabbering — Present participle of yabber.
  • yardbirds — Plural form of yardbird.
  • yearbooks — Plural form of yearbook.
  • york boat — a large rowboat or heavy canoe used for transporting supplies, especially by fur trappers in the Canadian Northwest.
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