9-letter words containing a, b, s, o
- soerabaja — Dutch name of Surabaya.
- softboard — a soft, porous particle board.
- soil bank — a plan providing cash payments to farmers who cut production of certain surplus crops in favor of soil-enriching ones.
- soya bean — soybean.
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- speedboat — a motorboat designed for high speeds.
- spoilable — able to be spoiled
- spongebag — A spongebag is a small bag in which you keep things such as soap and a toothbrush when you are travelling.
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- spottable — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- stableboy — a person who works in a stable.
- starboard — the right-hand side of or direction from a vessel or aircraft, facing forward.
- steamboat — a steam-driven vessel, especially a small one or one used on inland waters.
- stenobath — a stenobathic organism.
- stirabout — porridge.
- stoneboat — a type of sleigh used for moving rocks from fields, for hauling milk cans, etc
- stoolball — an English country game resembling cricket and played by young women
- stoopball — an American street game similar to baseball in which a ball is thrown against a wall or stoop
- stop bath — an acid bath or rinse for stopping the action of a developer before fixing a negative or print.
- stop bead — a strip of molding along the inside of a window frame for holding a sliding sash.
- stoppable — capable of being stopped.
- strobilar — of or relating to a strobila
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- stylobate — a course of masonry, part of the stereobate, forming the foundation for a colonnade, especially the outermost colonnade.
- subaction — an act of subduing
- subatomic — of or relating to a process that occurs within an atom.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- subcostal — below the rib
- subdeacon — a member of the clerical order next below that of deacon.
- subdorsal — situated close to the back in humans or upper surface in animals
- sublation — to deny or contradict; negate.
- submucosa — the layer of connective tissue located beneath the mucous membrane.
- subnormal — below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- subocular — below or under the eye
- subpoenas — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subsocial — without a definite social structure.
- surf boat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- surfboard — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- swingboat — a piece of fairground equipment consisting of a boat-shaped carriage for swinging in
- symbolang — Lapidus & Goldstein, 1965. Symbol manipulating Fortran subroutine package for IBM 7094, later CDC 6600.
- top brass — brass (def 5).
- unlosable — susceptible to becoming lost.
- wardrobes — Plural form of wardrobe.
- washboard — a rectangular board or frame, typically with a corrugated metallic surface, on which clothes are rubbed in the process of washing.
- washbowls — Plural form of washbowl.
- westabout — in, to, or towards the west
- wolfsbane — any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.
- workboats — Plural form of workboat.