9-letter words containing a, b, s
- keyboards — Plural form of keyboard.
- kickbacks — Plural form of kickback.
- kielbasas — Plural form of kielbasa.
- labellist — a person who wears only clothes with fashionable brand names
- labialise — Alt form labialize.
- labialism — a tendency, sometimes habitual, to make sounds labial, as in pronouncing the l in love as a w- like sound.
- labor spy — an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.
- laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- laborists — Plural form of laborist.
- laborites — Plural form of laborite.
- laborsome — Alternative form of laboursome.
- labourers — Plural form of labourer.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- labourous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- ladybirds — Plural form of ladybird.
- lambasted — to beat or whip severely.
- lambastes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lambaste.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lambskins — Plural form of lambskin.
- lambswool — Fine wool from a young sheep, used to make knitted garments, blankets, etc., with a soft texture.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- last-born — last in order of birth; youngest.
- layabouts — Plural form of layabout.
- lazybones — a lazy person.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- leaseback — the disposal of a building, land, or other property to a buyer under special arrangements for simultaneously leasing it on a long-term basis to the original seller, usually with an option to renew the lease.
- leeboards — Plural form of leeboard.
- lensboard — the usually removable front panel of a view camera or enlarger on which the lens is mounted.
- libations — Plural form of libation.
- liberates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liberate.
- libraries — Plural form of library.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- lift-slab — noting or pertaining to a technique of constructing multistory buildings in which all horizontal slabs are cast at ground level and, when ready, are raised into position by hydraulic jacks.
- local bus — (hardware) A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
- lok sabha — the lower house of parliament in India.
- longboats — Plural form of longboat.
- los banos — a town in central California.
- low brass — an alloy of about 80 percent copper and 20 percent zinc, with traces of lead and iron.
- lullabies — Plural form of lullaby.
- maccabees — (used with a plural verb) the members of the Hasmonean family of Jewish leaders and rulers comprising the sons of Mattathias and their descendants and reigning in Judea from 167? to 37 b.c., especially Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, who defeated the Syrians under Antiochus IV in 165? and rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem.
- machabees — Maccabees (def 2).
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- mandibles — Plural form of mandible.
- mangabeys — Plural form of mangabey.
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marimbist — A player of the marimba.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly