7-letter words containing e, b, r, o
- forbear — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- forbode — A forbidding, prohibition.
- forbore — simple past tense of forbear1 .
- forebay — Lb reservoirs An artificial pool of water ahead of a larger body of water.
- froebel — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1782–1852, German educational reformer: founder of the kindergarten system.
- gearbox — a transmission, as in an automobile.
- gobbler — a person or thing that gobbles or consumes voraciously or quickly: a gobbler of science fiction.
- gomberg — Moses, 1866–1947, U.S. chemist, born in Russia.
- goobers — Plural form of goober.
- herbose — Having an abundance of herbage; full of herbs.
- herbous — Of or relating to herbs; herbaceous.
- herdboy — A boy who looks after a herd of livestock.
- hobbler — One who hobbles.
- holberg — Ludvig, Baron. 1684–1754, Danish playwright, poet, and historian, born in Norway: considered the founder of modern Danish literature
- imbower — Archaic form of embower.
- isobare — Meteorology. a line drawn on a weather map or chart that connects points at which the barometric pressure is the same.
- jerboas — Plural form of jerboa.
- jobbers — Plural form of jobber.
- jobbery — the conduct of public or official business for the sake of improper private gain.
- joubert — Joseph [zhaw-zef] /ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1754–1824, French moralist and essayist.
- knobber — a two-year-old male deer
- kroeber — Alfred Louis, 1876–1960, U.S. anthropologist.
- labored — of or relating to workers, their associations, or working conditions: labor reforms.
- laborer — a person engaged in work that requires bodily strength rather than skill or training: a laborer in the field.
- labrose — thick-lipped
- latrobe — Benjamin Henry, 1764–1820, U.S. architect and engineer, born in England.
- liberos — Plural form of libero.
- lobbers — Plural form of lobber.
- lobster — any of various large, edible, marine, usually dull-green, stalk-eyed decapod crustaceans of the family Homaridae, especially of the genus Homarus, having large, asymmetrical pincers on the first pair of legs, one used for crushing and the other for cutting and tearing: the shell turns bright red when cooked.
- lowbred — characterized by or characteristic of low or vulgar breeding; ill-bred; coarse.
- microbe — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- moberly — a city in N central Missouri.
- mobster — a member of a criminal mob.
- neibour — Obsolete form of neighbour.
- newborn — recently or only just born.
- nobbier — Comparative form of nobby.
- nobbler — to drug or disable (a race horse) to prevent its winning a race.
- norbert — a male given name.
- o'brien — Edna, born 1930, Irish novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
- oberlin — Jean Frédéric [French zhahn frey-dey-reek] /French ʒɑ̃ freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1740–1826, Alsatian clergyman.
- obliger — to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
- obrecht — Jacob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1430–1505, Dutch composer and conductor.
- obregon — Alvaro [ahl-vah-raw] /ˈɑl vɑ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1928, Mexican general and statesman: president 1920–24.
- obscure — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- observe — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- obtrude — to thrust (something) forward or upon a person, especially without warrant or invitation: to obtrude one's opinions upon others.
- obverse — the side of a coin, medal, flag, etc., that bears the principal design (opposed to reverse).
- october — the tenth month of the year, containing 31 days. Abbreviation: Oct.
- orbited — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- orbiter — Also called space shuttle orbiter. the crew- and payload-carrying component of the space shuttle.