9-letter words containing b, l, o, u, s
- lobscouse — a stew of meat, potatoes, onions, ship biscuit, etc.
- 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.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
- lounsbury — Thomas Raynesford [reynz-ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ (Show IPA), 1838–1915, U.S. linguist and educator.
- lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- molybdous — of or containing molybdenum, especially in its lower valences.
- nebulosus — (of a cloud) having indistinct details.
- nonusable — not usable; unusable
- oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
- obscurely — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obsequial — Relating to an obsequy or funeral rite.
- obviously — easily seen, recognized, or understood; open to view or knowledge; evident: an obvious advantage.
- plumbeous — resembling or containing lead; leaden.
- quilombos — Plural form of quilombo.
- resoluble — able to be redissolved.
- scybalous — of or relating to scybalum
- slow burn — a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst: I did a slow burn as the conversation progressed.
- soup bowl — a container in which soup is served
- strobilus — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- stud bolt — a headless bolt threaded at each end.
- subcolony — a colony established by an existing colony
- subconsul — an assistant to a consul
- subcostal — below the rib
- subdolous — clever, crafty, or sly
- subdorsal — situated close to the back in humans or upper surface in animals
- subfossil — something partly fossilized
- sublation — to deny or contradict; negate.
- sublessor — a lease granted by one who is already a lessee of a property, as an apartment.
- subnormal — below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.
- subocular — below or under the eye
- subsocial — without a definite social structure.
- subsoiler — one who operates a subsoil plow.
- sun block — a substance that provides a high degree of protection against sunburn, often preventing most tanning as well as burning, as by obstructing the penetration of ultraviolet rays.
- superbold — (of writing, ornamentation, styling) very or exceptionally bold or striking
- troublous — characterized by trouble; unsettled: troublous times.
- unlosable — susceptible to becoming lost.
- unsoberly — in an unsober manner
- wolfsburg — a city in Lower Saxony, in N central Germany, near Brunswick.