9-letter words containing b, n, u
- obcuneate — inversely cuneate.
- obduction — (obsolete) The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
- obnoxious — highly objectionable or offensive; odious: obnoxious behavior.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscuring — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obsequent — (obsolete) Obedient; submissive; obsequious.
- obstruent — Medicine/Medical. (of a substance) producing an obstruction.
- obtruding — Present participle of obtrude.
- obtrusion — the act of obtruding.
- obtunding — Present participle of obtund.
- obtundity — the state of having the senses numbed or less sharp
- obumbrant — overhanging; projecting over another part.
- oldenburg — Claes (Thure) [klous too r-uh] /klaʊs ˈtʊər ə/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. sculptor, born in Sweden.
- ombudsman — a government official who hears and investigates complaints by private citizens against other officials or government agencies.
- ombudsmen — Plural form of ombudsman.
- omnibuses — Plural form of omnibus.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- otterburn — a village in central Northumberland, in NE England: battle of Chevy Chase 1388.
- outbounds — boundaries
- outbrazen — to be more brazen or impudent than
- outnumber — to exceed in number.
- ovalbumin — the principal protein of egg white.
- overbound — Simple past tense and past participle of overbind.
- ovimbundu — Mbundu (def 1).
- pakanbaru — a city on central Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- pinch bug — a stag beetle
- plant bug — any of numerous, often brightly colored hemipterous insects of the family Miridae that feed on the juices of plants.
- plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
- plumbness — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- pony club — an international youth organization that educates young people about horses and horse riding
- pot-bound — (of a plant) having the roots so densely grown as to fill the container and require repotting.
- prenubile — of the period from birth to puberty
- prenumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
- pub lunch — a lunch in a pub
- pubescent — arriving or arrived at puberty.
- punchball — a form of playground or street baseball in which a rubber ball is batted with the fist.
- punchbowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- quad-band — of or relating to mobile telephones that can operate on all four GSM frequency bands and therefore be used in most countries
- queen bee — a fertile female bee.
- queen mab — Irish and English Folklore. a mischievous, tantalizing fairy who governs and produces people's dreams.
- quibbling — characterized by or consisting of quibbles; carping; niggling: quibbling debates.
- rebounder — a player who excels in gaining hold of rebounds.
- rebutment — the act of rebutting something or the state of being rebutted; rebuttal
- rebutting — to refute by evidence or argument.
- recumbent — lying down; reclining; leaning.
- reubenite — a member of the tribe of Reuben.
- ring buoy — a ring-shaped life preserver.
- rockbound — surrounded or covered by rocks