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9-letter words containing o, b, y

  • ebriosity — the state of being regularly drunk
  • embodying — Present participle of embody.
  • embryonal — Embryonic.
  • embryonic — Of or relating to an embryo.
  • embryotic — Embryonic.
  • enjoyable — (of an activity or occasion) giving delight or pleasure.
  • enjoyably — In an enjoyable manner.
  • everybody — Every person.
  • favorably — characterized by approval or support; positive: a favorable report.
  • ferryboat — a boat used to transport passengers, vehicles, etc., across a river or the like.
  • fibrocyte — an inactive fibroblast
  • 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.
  • food body — a mass of nutrients attached to a seed coat, which attracts ants and thus aids dispersal of the seed
  • freebooty — plunder; loot; spoils.
  • garbology — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
  • geobotany — phytogeography.
  • gibbosity — the state of being gibbous.
  • 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 beyond — exceed
  • go blooey — out of order; faulty.
  • gong buoy — a buoy in which one or more gongs are struck by hammers that swing freely with the motion of the buoy.
  • goody bag — A goody bag is a bag of little gifts, often given away by manufacturers in order to encourage people to try their products.
  • goose bay — an air base in S central Labrador, in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the great circle route between New York and London: used as a fuel stop by some transatlantic airplanes.
  • gray body — any body that emits radiation at each wavelength in a constant ratio less than unity to that emitted by a black body at the same temperature.
  • grey body — a body that emits radiation in constant proportion to the corresponding black-body radiation
  • gun lobby — a group of people who argue for the right of members of the public to be able to own guns
  • gynobasic — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
  • gynophobe — a person who hates or fears women
  • herbivory — The eating of plants, especially ones that are still living.
  • herbology — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
  • high moby — /hi:' mohb'ee/ The high half of a 512K PDP-10's physical address space; the other half was of course the low moby. This usage has been generalised in a way that has outlasted the PDP-10; for example, at the 1990 Washington D.C. Area Science Fiction Conclave (Disclave), when a miscommunication resulted in two separate wakes being held in commemoration of the shutdown of MIT's last ITS machines, the one on the upper floor was dubbed the "high moby" and the other the "low moby". All parties involved grokked this instantly. See moby.
  • hobbyists — Plural form of hobbyist.
  • hobbyless — without any hobby or hobbies
  • holy lamb — paschal lamb (def 4).
  • homebuyer — a person who buys or expects to buy a house.
  • honey bun — Also called sticky bun. a sweet spiral-shaped bun, usually with cinnamon, raisins, and nuts, coated with honey or butter and brown sugar.
  • honey-bee — any bee that collects and stores honey, especially Apis mellifera.
  • honeybees — Plural form of honeybee.
  • honeybird — Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.
  • honeycomb — a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
  • honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
  • horribley — Misspelling of horribly.
  • houseboys — Plural form of houseboy.
  • hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.
  • hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
  • hydrobomb — an aerial torpedo equipped with a rocket engine that propels it after the torpedo has entered the water.
  • hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
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