7-letter words containing n, i, b, s
- nibbles — Plural form of nibble.
- niobous — Chemistry. containing trivalent niobium, as niobous chloride, NbCl 3 .
- nubbins — a small lump or stunted piece; stub.
- nubiles — Plural form of nubile.
- obtains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obtain.
- omnibus — bus1 (def 1).
- orbison — Roy, 1936–88, U.S. rock and roll singer and songwriter.
- ribbons — ragged strips or shreds
- ribston — a variety of winter apple, full name ribston pippin apple, grown first in Normandy and imported to Yorkshire
- robbins — Frederick C(hapman) 1916–2003, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1954.
- rybinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NNE of Moscow, on the Volga near the Rybinsk Reservoir. Also called Shcherbakov (1946–57)
- sabbing — the act of engaging in direct action to prevent a targeted activity, esp fox hunting
- sabrina — a female given name: from the Latin word for the river Severn.
- serbian — of or relating to Serbia, its inhabitants, or their language.
- sibling — a brother or sister.
- sin-bin — In the sports of ice hockey and rugby league, if a player is sent to the sin-bin, they are ordered to leave the playing area for a short period of time because they have done something that is against the rules.
- sindbad — Sinbad the Sailor
- sobbing — to weep with a convulsive catching of the breath.
- sorbian — of or relating to the Wends or their language.
- sorbing — to gather on a surface either by absorption, adsorption, or a combination of the two processes.
- stibine — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous gas, SbH 3 , usually produced by the reaction of dilute hydrochloric acid with an alloy of antimony and either zinc or magnesium.
- subbing — a submarine.
- suberin — a waxlike, fatty substance, occurring in cork cell walls and in or between other cells, that on alkaline hydrolysis yields chiefly suberic acid.
- subjoin — to add at the end, as of something said or written; append.
- subline — a secondary headline
- subring — a subset of a ring that is a subgroup under addition and that is closed under multiplication. Compare ring1 (def 22).
- subunit — a single thing or person.
- sunbird — any of various small, brilliantly colored Old World birds of the family Nectariniidae.
- swabian — a region and medieval duchy in SW Germany: it constituted the area presently included in the states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, in S Germany.
- swingby — act of spacecraft passing close to planet
- tubings — material in the form of a tube: glass tubing.