9-letter words containing b, a, o, u
- obloquial — having a relation or connection to obloquy
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obsequial — Relating to an obsequy or funeral rite.
- obturator — to stop up; close.
- obumbrant — overhanging; projecting over another part.
- obumbrate — to darken, overshadow, or cloud.
- ombudsman — a government official who hears and investigates complaints by private citizens against other officials or government agencies.
- orbicular — like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.
- orbituary — Orbital.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- outboards — Plural form of outboard.
- outbraved — Simple past tense and past participle of outbrave.
- outbrazen — to be more brazen or impudent than
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- outdebate — to outdo or defeat in debate
- outer bar — a body of the junior counsel who sit and plead outside the dividing bar in the court, ranking below the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel.
- outgamble — to defeat at gambling
- ovalbumin — the principal protein of egg white.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- potatobug — Colorado potato beetle.
- prolabour — favouring an organized labour movement
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- put about — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- quebracho — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Schinopsis, having very hard wood, especially S. lorentzii, the wood and bark of which are important in tanning and dyeing.
- raceabout — a small, sloop-rigged racing yacht with a short bowsprit.
- roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- roundball — basketball
- rub along — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- san bruno — a city in W California, S of San Francisco.
- sauceboat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- scybalous — of or relating to scybalum
- sebaceous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling tallow or fat; fatty; greasy.
- see about — to perceive with the eyes; look at.
- set about — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- simarouba — any tropical American tree belonging to the genus Simaruba, of the quassia family, having pinnate leaves, a fleshy fruit, and a root whose bark contains an appetite stimulant.
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- stirabout — porridge.
- 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.