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8-letter words containing o, b, r, i

  • homebird — a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home, or who returns after a period of living away
  • hornbill — any large bird of the family Bucerotidae, of the Old World tropics, characterized by a very large bill usually surmounted by a horny protuberance.
  • horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
  • horribly — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
  • huidobro — Vicente [bee-sen-te] /biˈsɛn tɛ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1948, Chilean poet.
  • imbowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbower.
  • inboards — Plural form of inboard.
  • incomber — Archaic form of encumber.
  • iron box — [Unix/Internet] A special environment set up to trap a cracker logging in over remote connections long enough to be traced. May include a modified shell restricting the cracker's movements in unobvious ways, and "bait" files designed to keep him interested and logged on. See also back door, firewall machine, Venus flytrap, and Clifford Stoll's account in "The Cuckoo's Egg" of how he made and used one. Compare padded cell.
  • ironbark — any of the various Australian eucalyptuses having a hard, solid bark.
  • isobaric — Meteorology. having or showing equal barometric pressure.
  • isobront — a line on a weather map or chart connecting various points where a given phase of thunderstorm activity occurred simultaneously.
  • kir moab — ancient name of Kerak.
  • kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
  • laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
  • laborism — a political theory favoring the dominance of labor in the economic and political life of a country.
  • laborist — A physician who aids labor and delivery but does not provide prenatal care.
  • laborite — a member of a political party promoting the interests of labor.
  • libatory — relating to libation
  • liberato — ErrorTitleDiv {.
  • libretto — the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition.
  • limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
  • lombardi — Vince(nt Thomas) 1913–70, U.S. football coach.
  • lovebird — any of various small parrots, especially of the genus Agapornis, of Africa, noted for the affection shown one another and often kept as pets.
  • microbar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one millionth of a bar; one dyne per square centimeter.
  • microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.
  • microbes — Plural form of microbe.
  • microbic — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
  • microbot — A small mobile robot equipped with a microcontroller.
  • microbus — minibus.
  • moorbird — moorfowl.
  • morbidly — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
  • morbific — causing disease.
  • morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
  • morbilli — measles (def 1).
  • moribund — in a dying state; near death.
  • neighbor — a person who lives near another.
  • niobrara — a river flowing E from E Wyoming through Nebraska to the Missouri. 431 miles (692 km) long.
  • nubiform — cloud-like
  • obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
  • obligors — Plural form of obligor.
  • obtainer — One who obtains.
  • obviator — a person who obviates
  • old bird — Some people use the phrase old bird to refer to someone and say what they are like.
  • orbitale — Craniometry, Cephalometry. the lowermost point on the lower margin of the left orbit, located instrumentally on the skull or by palpation on the head.
  • orbitals — Plural form of orbital.
  • orbitary — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
  • orbiteer — to climb (a mountain) in a circular fashion as opposed to scaling.
  • orbiters — Plural form of orbiter.
  • orbiting — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
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