9-letter words containing o, b, s, l
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lambswool — Fine wool from a young sheep, used to make knitted garments, blankets, etc., with a soft texture.
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- last-born — last in order of birth; youngest.
- layabouts — Plural form of layabout.
- 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.
- let sb go — If you let someone or something go, you allow them to leave or escape.
- libations — Plural form of libation.
- libellous — containing, constituting, or involving a libel; maliciously defamatory.
- librettos — Plural form of libretto.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- lobbyists — Plural form of lobbyist.
- lobscouse — a stew of meat, potatoes, onions, ship biscuit, etc.
- lobstered — Simple past tense and past participle of lobster.
- lobsterer — a person who catches lobsters
- local bus — (hardware) A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
- lockboxes — Plural form of lockbox.
- lok sabha — the lower house of parliament in India.
- longboats — Plural form of longboat.
- los banos — a town in central California.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
- lounsbury — Thomas Raynesford [reynz-ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ (Show IPA), 1838–1915, U.S. linguist and educator.
- lovebirds — any of various small parrots, especially of the genus Agapornis, of Africa, noted for the affection shown one another and often kept as pets.
- lovebites — Plural form of lovebite.
- low brass — an alloy of about 80 percent copper and 20 percent zinc, with traces of lead and iron.
- lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- may blobs — marsh marigold.
- mesoblast — the mesoderm.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- mobbishly — in a mobbish, chaotic or turbulent manner
- mobilised — Simple past tense and past participle of mobilise.
- mobilises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mobilise.
- mobilizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mobilize.
- molybdous — of or containing molybdenum, especially in its lower valences.
- monoblast — A cell, normally found in bone marrow, that matures into a monocyte.
- mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- nebulosus — (of a cloud) having indistinct details.
- noble gas — any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of group 8A or 0 of the periodic table: helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon.
- nobleness — distinguished by rank or title.
- nonblacks — Plural form of nonblack.
- nonusable — not usable; unusable
- nosebleed — bleeding from the nose.
- oblations — Plural form of oblation.
- obligates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obligate.
- oblivions — Plural form of oblivion.
- oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
- obscenely — offensive to morality or decency; indecent; depraved: obscene language.