9-letter words containing o, b, n
- rock band — heavy pop music group
- rockbound — surrounded or covered by rocks
- rootbound — (of a pot plant) having outgrown its pot, so that the roots are cramped and tangled
- rope burn — a burn on the skin caused by friction from a rope
- rosenberg — Alfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
- roundball — basketball
- rub along — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rumble on — If you say that something such as an argument rumbles on, you mean that it continues for a long time after it should have been settled.
- san bruno — a city in W California, S of San Francisco.
- san pablo — a city in the Philippines, on S Luzon.
- sanbenito — an ornamented garment worn by a condemned heretic at an auto-da-fé.
- sand goby — a species of goby, (Pomatoschistus minutus), that lives in European sandy waters
- schonbein — Christian Friedrich [kris-tee-ahn free-drikh] /ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1799–1868, Swiss chemist.
- schonberg — Arnold [ahr-nuh ld;; German ahr-nuh lt] /ˈɑr nəld;; German ˈɑr nəlt/ (Show IPA), 1874–1951, Austrian composer in the U.S.
- scrubdown — an act or instance of scrubbing, especially a thorough washing of a surface or object: The decks of the ship get a scrubdown every morning.
- sea robin — any of various gurnards, especially certain American species of the genus Prionotus, having large pectoral fins used to move across the ocean bottom.
- serbonian — of, relating to, or designating the large marshy tract of land in the northern part of ancient Egypt in which entire armies are said to have been swallowed up.
- shankbone — a large bone in the lower leg between the knee and the foot of an animal; the tibia
- sheboygan — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- sherborne — a town in S England in Dorset: noted for its medieval abbey, ruined medieval castle, and Sherborne Castle, a mansion built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594. Pop: 9350 (2001)
- shipborne — carried on a ship.
- signboard — a board bearing a sign.
- slabstone — a paving stone in the form of a slab; flagstone
- slow burn — a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst: I did a slow burn as the conversation progressed.
- smogbound — surrounded by smog.
- snobbiest — condescending, patronizing, or socially exclusive; snobbish.
- snow bank — a long raised mass of fallen snow
- snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
- snow-boot — a boot specially designed for walking in snow
- snowberry — a North American shrub, Symphoricarpos albus, of the honeysuckle family, cultivated for its ornamental white berries.
- snowblade — one of a pair of short skis used without poles
- snowblink — a white luminosity on the underside of clouds, caused by the reflection of light from a snow surface.
- snowboard — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- snowbound — shut in or immobilized by snow.
- snowbrush — a brush for clearing snow (from a car, path, etc)
- snowglobe — a transparent sphere filled with water and white particles which, when shaken, resemble snow falling
- snuff-box — a box for holding snuff, especially one small enough to be carried in the pocket.
- sobbingly — in a sobbing manner
- soberness — not intoxicated or drunk.
- softbench — An IPSE from Hewlett-Packard.
- softbound — book: paperback
- soil bank — a plan providing cash payments to farmers who cut production of certain surplus crops in favor of soil-enriching ones.
- soilborne — carried in soil
- song-bird — a bird that sings.
- sorbonist — a student or graduate of the Sorbonne.
- sound bow — that part of a bell against which the tongue strikes.
- soundbite — short statement, quotation
- soya bean — soybean.
- spongebag — A spongebag is a small bag in which you keep things such as soap and a toothbrush when you are travelling.
- sponsible — responsible