9-letter words containing o, b, e, a
- jobstears — (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
- joe blake — a snake
- kakebuton — a thin quilt or coverlet traditionally used when sleeping on a futon.
- keelboats — Plural form of keelboat.
- keyboards — Plural form of keyboard.
- kiteboard — A specialized light weight wakeboard used for kiteboarding.
- kneeboard — a short board for surfing or water-skiing in a kneeling position.
- kobenhavn — Danish name of Copenhagen.
- la boheme — an opera (1896) by Giacomo Puccini.
- labetalol — an alpha- and beta-adrenergic blocking agent, C 19 H 24 N 2 O 3 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- laborites — Plural form of laborite.
- laborsome — Alternative form of laboursome.
- labourers — Plural form of labourer.
- labourite — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- laterborn — born later
- lazybones — a lazy person.
- leeboards — Plural form of leeboard.
- lensboard — the usually removable front panel of a view camera or enlarger on which the lens is mounted.
- liberator — a four-engined heavy bomber widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II. Symbol: B-24.
- lie about — sth: remain unused
- life-boat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- loanblend — a compound word or expression consisting of both native and foreign elements.
- lobengula — ?1836–94, last Matabele king (1870–93); his kingdom was destroyed by the British
- lobulated — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
- locatable — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- lodgeable — Capable of being lodged.
- longbeard — bellarmine.
- lowballed — Simple past tense and past participle of lowball.
- lyon bean — a vine, Mucuna niveum, of southern Asia and the Philippines, having showy clusters of white flowers and whitish hairy pods, grown widely as a forage crop.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- make bold — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make book — to enter in a book or list; record; register.
- mamberamo — a river in Irian Jaya, W New Guinea, flowing NW to the Pacific Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- mason bee — any of numerous solitary bees, as of the family Megachilidae, that construct nests of clay.
- meibomian — Alternative form of Meibomian.
- memorable — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- memorably — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- mesoblast — the mesoderm.
- metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- microbeam — (physics) A beam having a small cross section.
- mole crab — a burrowing crustacean of the genus Emerita, found on sandy ocean beaches of North America, having a distinctly curved carapace.
- molybdate — a salt of any molybdic acid.
- money-bag — a bag for money.
- moneybags — a bag for money.
- monocable — an aerial ropeway having a single moving cable.
- moonbeams — Plural form of moonbeam.
- morecambe — a port and resort in NW England, in NW Lancashire on Morecambe Bay (an inlet of the Irish Sea). Pop (with Heysham): 49 569 (2001)
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- mossbauer — Rudolf L [roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1929–2011, German physicist: Nobel prize 1961.