7-letter words containing n, o, b, s
- dobbins — Plural form of dobbin.
- dobsons — Plural form of dobson.
- donbass — an industrial region in E Ukraine in the plain of the Rivers Donets and lower Dnieper: the site of a major coalfield
- ebonics — Black English.
- ebonies — Plural form of ebony.
- ebonise — Alternative form of ebonize.
- ebonist — a worker in ebony.
- entombs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of entomb.
- fanboys — Plural form of fanboy.
- gabions — Plural form of gabion.
- gibbons — any small, slender, long-armed arboreal anthropoid ape of the genus Hylobates, of the East Indies and southern Asia: all gibbon species are reduced in number and some are very rare.
- goblins — a grotesque sprite or elf that is mischievous or malicious toward people.
- hobnobs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hobnob.
- hornsby — Rogers, 1896–1963, U.S. baseball player and manager.
- jibbons — spring onions
- misborn — (now rare) Born prematurely; abortive.
- mobsman — (obsolete) A pickpocket working in groups.
- nestbox — Alternative spelling of nest box.
- netbios — An applications programming interface (API) which activates network operations on IBM PC compatibles running under Microsoft's DOS. It is a set of network commands that the application program issues in order to transmit and receive data to another host on the network. The commands are interpreted by a network control program or network operating system that is NetBIOS compatible. See NetBOLLIX.
- newsboy — a person, typically a boy, who sells or delivers newspapers.
- niobous — Chemistry. containing trivalent niobium, as niobous chloride, NbCl 3 .
- nobbles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nobble.
- nobless — Alternative form of noblesse.
- noblest — distinguished by rank or title.
- nosebag — feed bag (def 1).
- oblongs — Plural form of oblong.
- obscene — offensive to morality or decency; indecent; depraved: obscene language.
- obtains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obtain.
- obtunds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obtund.
- omnibus — bus1 (def 1).
- on base — at a base, having reached it safely with a base hit, walk, etc.
- openbsd — (operating system) A version of BSD Unix with an emphasis on security. A lot of security work that is ported to other free operating systems originates with OpenBSD and a lot of code review is done here. Sub-projects of OpenBSD include implementations of SSH, ntpd, and CVS, to be called OpenCVS.
- orbison — Roy, 1936–88, U.S. rock and roll singer and songwriter.
- osborne — John (James) 1929–94, English playwright.
- 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.
- robeson — Paul, 1898–1976, U.S. singer and actor.
- sabaton — a foot defense of mail or of a number of lames with solid toe and heel pieces.
- sabayon — zabaglione.
- sanborn — a male given name.
- sandbox — a box or receptacle for holding sand, especially one large enough for children to play in.
- skyborn — born in heaven
- snobol2 — A SNOBOL variant which existed only briefly. It featured built-in functions, but not programmer-defined ones.
- snobol3 — SNOBOL with user-defined functions. Written in 1965. The SNOBOL 6.3 compiler for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 was written in SNOBOL.
- snobol4 — (language) A quite distinct descendant of SNOBOL, developed by Griswold et al in 1967. SNOBOL4 is declarative with dynamic scope. Patterns are first-class data objects that can be constructed by concatenation and alternation. Success and failure are used for flow control. Delayed (unevaluated) expressions can be used to implement recursion. It has a table data type. Strings generated at run time can be treated as programs and executed. See also vanilla.
- sobbing — to weep with a convulsive catching of the breath.
- sorbent — a surface that sorbs.
- 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.