9-letter words containing b, u, o, e
- raceabout — a small, sloop-rigged racing yacht with a short bowsprit.
- rebounder — a player who excels in gaining hold of rebounds.
- redoubler — a person who redoubles
- redoubted — dreaded; formidable.
- resoluble — able to be redissolved.
- rope burn — a burn on the skin caused by friction from a rope
- rule book — A rule book is a book containing the official rules for a particular game, job, or organization.
- rumble on — If you say that something such as an argument rumbles on, you mean that it continues for a long time after it should have been settled.
- 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.
- 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.
- shoebrush — a brush used in polishing shoes.
- shore bug — any of various small, predaceous hemipterous insects of the family Saldidae, some of which are burrowers, commonly occurring along grassy shores of ponds, streams, brackish lakes, and seacoasts.
- smokebush — a plant, Cotinus coggygria, with purple leaves and small flowers that turn grey-white before they fall
- sobriquet — a nickname.
- sodbuster — a farmer who works the soil.
- soubrette — a maidservant or lady's maid in a play, opera, or the like, especially one displaying coquetry, pertness, and a tendency to engage in intrigue.
- soundbite — short statement, quotation
- sourberry — lemonade berry.
- sub verbo — (used as a direction to a reference) under the word or heading. Abbreviation: s.v.
- subcortex — Anatomy, Zoology. the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney. the cerebral cortex.
- subdeacon — a member of the clerical order next below that of deacon.
- subeditor — a subordinate or junior editor.
- subereous — of the nature of or resembling cork; suberose.
- sublessor — a lease granted by one who is already a lessee of a property, as an apartment.
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- suboffice — a branch or local office of a business
- suboscine — of or relating to birds of the suborder Suboscines, of the order Passeriformes, comprising the supposedly more primitive members of the order, with less well developed vocal organs than the oscine birds.
- subperiod — a subdivision of a time period
- subpoenas — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subpotent — not at full strength
- subregion — a division or subdivision of a region, especially a division of a zoogeographical region.
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subsector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- subserous — situated or occurring under a serous membrane.
- subsoiler — one who operates a subsoil plow.
- subwoofer — a loudspeaker component designed to reproduce only extremely low bass frequencies, generally below 125 Hz.
- sunbonnet — a bonnet with a large brim shading the face and sometimes a piece projecting over the neck, worn by women and children.
- superbold — (of writing, ornamentation, styling) very or exceptionally bold or striking
- superbomb — a highly destructive bomb, especially a hydrogen bomb.
- tabbouleh — a salad of fine-ground bulgur, parsley, tomatoes, green onions, mint, olive oil, and lemon juice.
- tambourer — someone who embroiders on a tambour
- tenebrous — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- thenabout — around then or around that time
- thumbhole — a hole into which a thumb can be inserted, as to provide a grip.
- touchable — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- true-born — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- tube foot — one of numerous small, tubular processes on the ventral body surface of most echinoderms, used for locomotion and grasping.
- tube sock — a casual sock that is not shaped at the heel.