9-letter words containing b, u, o
- fox brush — the tail of a fox.
- full bore — moving or operating at the greatest speed or with maximum power.
- full-bore — moving or operating at the greatest speed or with maximum power.
- fullblood — person of unmixed race
- furbelows — Plural form of furbelow.
- fuzzboxes — Plural form of fuzzbox.
- gadabouts — Plural form of gadabout.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- get about — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- globulins — Plural form of globulin.
- globulite — (mineral) A rudimentary spherical form of crystallite.
- globulous — globe-shaped; spherical.
- go public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- gobble up — to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
- 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).
- gong buoy — a buoy in which one or more gongs are struck by hammers that swing freely with the motion of the buoy.
- goosebump — The bumps on a person's skin, at the base of body hair, which may involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions.
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- grout box — a conical object of expanded metal, buried in poured concrete with an anchor bolt held in its inner and smaller end.
- guestbook — A book in which visitors to a particular place may write their names, addresses, and remarks.
- guidebook — a book of directions, advice, and information, especially for travelers or tourists.
- gun lobby — a group of people who argue for the right of members of the public to be able to own guns
- gunnbjorn — Mount, the highest peak in Greenland, in the SE part. 12,139 feet (3702 meters).
- handbound — (of books) bound by hand.
- harborous — welcoming and offering hospitality
- harboured — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harbourer — A person who harbours another.
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- hellbound — Bound for Hell; damned.
- hereabout — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- hidebound — narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant.
- homebound — confined to one's home, especially because of illness.
- homebuilt — Constructed at home, rather than being obtained from a manufacturer etc.
- homebuyer — a person who buys or expects to buy a house.
- honey bun — Also called sticky bun. a sweet spiral-shaped bun, usually with cinnamon, raisins, and nuts, coated with honey or butter and brown sugar.
- hoofbound — (of horses and other hoofed animals) having the heels of the hoofs dry and contracted, causing lameness.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- houseboys — Plural form of houseboy.
- how about — introducing a suggestion
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- ibuprofen — a white powder, C 13 H 18 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic.
- inbounded — Simple past tense and past participle of inbound.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- indubious — Not dubious or doubtful; certain.
- inebrious — (archaic) intoxicated; drunk.
- insoluble — incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.
- insolubly — In an insoluble manner; irresolubly, irresolvably.
- iron blue — any of the class of blue pigments having a high tinting strength and ranging in shade and in coloring properties from reddish blue to jet blue: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and printing inks.
- ironbound — bound with iron.