9-letter words containing b, o, u, s
- 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.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- layabouts — Plural form of layabout.
- libellous — containing, constituting, or involving a libel; maliciously defamatory.
- 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.
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- misbutton — (transitive) To button wrongly.
- misdoubts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misdoubt.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- molybdous — of or containing molybdenum, especially in its lower valences.
- mossbauer — Rudolf L [roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1929–2011, German physicist: Nobel prize 1961.
- mousebird — coly.
- mouthbows — Plural form of mouthbow.
- music box — a box or case containing an apparatus for producing music mechanically, as by means of a comblike steel plate with tuned teeth sounded by small pegs or pins in the surface of a revolving cylinder or disk.
- nabonidus — died 539? b.c, last king of Babylonia 556–539 (father of Belshazzar).
- nanotubes — Plural form of nanotube.
- nebulosus — (of a cloud) having indistinct details.
- nonusable — not usable; unusable
- numberous — Obsolete form of numerous.
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
- obnoxious — highly objectionable or offensive; odious: obnoxious behavior.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurely — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obscurest — Superlative form of obscure.
- obscuring — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obscurity — the state or quality of being obscure.
- obsequent — (obsolete) Obedient; submissive; obsequious.
- obsequial — Relating to an obsequy or funeral rite.
- obsequies — a funeral rite or ceremony.
- obsidious — (rare) besieging; besetting, obsessional.
- obstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obstruct.
- obstruent — Medicine/Medical. (of a substance) producing an obstruction.
- obtrusion — the act of obtruding.
- obtrusive — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- obviously — easily seen, recognized, or understood; open to view or knowledge; evident: an obvious advantage.
- 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.
- osso buco — Italian veal dish
- ouroboros — A serpent, dragon or worm who eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.
- outboards — Plural form of outboard.
- outbounds — boundaries