9-letter words containing o, b, y, l
- busy-loop — tight loop
- byelostok — a city in E Poland.
- cell body — the compact area of a nerve cell that constitutes the nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm, excluding the axons and dendrites.
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- coercibly — in a coercible way
- colorably — in a colourable manner
- columbary — a dovecote
- countably — in a countable manner
- cryocable — a highly conducting electrical cable cooled with a refrigerant such as liquid nitrogen
- cubbyhole — A cubbyhole is a very small room or space for storing things.
- cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
- day labor — workers hired on a daily basis only, especially unskilled labor.
- diabolify — (transitive) To ascribe diabolical qualities to; to change into, or represent as, a devil.
- diabology — the study of the devil or devils
- doability — Feasibility; practicability.
- dobsonfly — a large, soft-bodied insect, Corydalus cornutus, having four distinctly veined membranous wings, biting mouthparts, and, in the male, huge mandibles that jut out from the head.
- dolly tub — an apparatus for agitating and washing ore in a vessel
- dollybird — an attractive and fashionable girl, esp one who is considered to be unintelligent
- doubleday — Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
- doubtably — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- dubiously — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- embryonal — Embryonic.
- enjoyable — (of an activity or occasion) giving delight or pleasure.
- enjoyably — In an enjoyable manner.
- favorably — characterized by approval or support; positive: a favorable report.
- fibrously — In a fibrous manner.
- fly block — (in a Spanish burton or the like) a block, supported by a runner, through which the hauling part of the fall is rove.
- garbology — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- globesity — obesity as affecting a very large percentage of the global population: the public-health crisis of globesity.
- globosely — In a globose manner.
- glory box — a box in which a young woman stores clothes, etc, in preparation for marriage
- go blooey — out of order; faulty.
- gun lobby — a group of people who argue for the right of members of the public to be able to own guns
- herbology — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- hobbyless — without any hobby or hobbies
- holy lamb — paschal lamb (def 4).
- honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- horribley — Misspelling of horribly.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- immovably — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- insolubly — In an insoluble manner; irresolubly, irresolvably.
- ivorybill — The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis).
- jollyboat — Alternative form of jolly boat.
- kilobytes — Plural form of kilobyte.
- labor day — (in the U.S.) a legal holiday, commonly the first Monday in September, in honor of labor.
- labor spy — an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.
- layabouts — Plural form of layabout.