8-letter words containing g, o, b
- knobbing — Present participle of knob.
- kornberg — Arthur, 1918–2007, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
- laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- lag bolt — lag screw
- leg bone — a bone of the leg
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- liveblog — a blog containing entries about an event that are written and posted while the event is taking place.
- lobbygow — an errand boy, as formerly in the Chinatown section of a city.
- lobbying — an entrance hall, corridor, or vestibule, as in a public building, often serving as an anteroom; foyer.
- log book — A log book is a book in which someone records details and events relating to something, for example a journey or period of their life, or a vehicle.
- logboard — a board used for logging a ship's records
- logbooks — Plural form of logbook.
- longboat — (formerly) the largest boat carried by a sailing ship.
- longbows — Plural form of longbow.
- megabook — An extremely large book.
- metablog — (neologism, Internet) a blog about blogs.
- misbegot — Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin.
- moneybag — a bag for money.
- moon bag — a small bag worn on a belt, round the waist
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- nobbling — to drug or disable (a race horse) to prevent its winning a race.
- nonbeing — the fact of existing; existence (as opposed to nonexistence).
- nose bag — feed bag (def 1).
- nosebags — Plural form of nosebag.
- obligant — a person who promises or is obliged to pay a sum or carry out a task
- obligate — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- obligato — Alternative spelling of obbligato.
- obligees — Plural form of obligee.
- obliging — willing or eager to do favors, offer one's services, etc.; accommodating: The clerk was most obliging.
- obligors — Plural form of obligor.
- oblongly — In an oblong orientation.
- oblongum — (geometry, archaic) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.
- orbiting — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- orenburg — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- outbulge — to bulge outwards
- oxbridge — Oxford or Cambridge University, or both, especially in contrast with the redbrick universities of England.
- peat bog — a swamp in which peat has accumulated.
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- plumbago — graphite.
- poly bag — a polythene bag, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- post-bag — mailbag.
- rag bolt — barb bolt.
- rebought — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- ringbolt — a bolt with a ring fitted in an eye at its head.
- ringbone — a morbid bony growth on the pastern bones of a horse, often resulting in lameness.
- ringwomb — a complication at lambing resulting from failure of the cervix to open
- robosign — to sign (a document) without reviewing its contents or supporting documents: The bank instructed employees to robosign piles of mortgages.
- roebling — John Augustus, 1806–69, U.S. engineer, born in Germany: pioneer of wire-rope suspension bridges, designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
- roll bag — a small zippered duffel bag for carrying school supplies, sports gear, or the like.