9-letter words containing b, u, c, o
- douchebag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
- dutch bob — a hair style consisting of bangs cut straight across the forehead and the rest of the hair cut to a uniform length just below the ears.
- eurobeach — a beach that has been designated as suitable for bathing from because it meets the limits set by European Union regulations for bacteria in bathing areas
- fabaceous — belonging to the Fabaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Leguminosae.
- fluoboric — containing the univalent group BF 4 − .
- focusable — Capable of being focused.
- go public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- gobstruck — (slang, chiefly, UK) gobsmacked; astonished; astounded.
- golf club — any of various long-handled clubs with wooden or metal heads, for hitting the ball in golf. Compare iron (def 5), wood1 (def 8).
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- kickabout — An informal amateur game of football/soccer.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- 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.
- lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
- lunch box — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- microtube — A microscopic tube, especially one used in the construction of specialized lasers.
- 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.
- nonpublic — Not open or available to the public.
- obcuneate — inversely cuneate.
- obduction — (obsolete) The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- 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.
- obstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obstruct.
- orbicular — like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- osso buco — Italian veal dish
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
- pony club — an international youth organization that educates young people about horses and horse riding
- prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
- punchbowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- quebecois — Quebecer.
- 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.
- rockbound — surrounded or covered by rocks
- 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.
- 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.
- schomburg — Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.
- scorbutic — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with scurvy.
- 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.
- scrubdown — an act or instance of scrubbing, especially a thorough washing of a surface or object: The decks of the ship get a scrubdown every morning.
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- scybalous — of or relating to scybalum