5-letter words containing o, b
- embog — (transitive) To bog down.
- embow — (obsolete) To bend like a bow; to curve.
- embox — to put in a box
- fibro — (uncountable) a building material consisting of fibres and cement pressed in to sheets.
- forbs — Plural form of forb.
- forby — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.
- frobs — Plural form of frob.
- gabon — Official name Gabonese Republic. a republic in W equatorial Africa: formerly a part of French Equatorial Africa; member of the French Community. 102,290 sq. mi. (264,931 sq. km). Capital: Libreville.
- gabor — Dennis, 1900–79, British physicist, born in Hungary: inventor of holography; Nobel Prize 1971.
- gambo — a simple farm cart
- garbo — Greta (Greta Lovisa Gustaffson) 1905–90, U.S. film actress, born in Sweden.
- globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
- globs — Plural form of glob.
- globy — round; globular
- go by — a going by without notice; an intentional passing by; snub: to give one the go-by.
- go-by — a going by without notice; an intentional passing by; snub: to give one the go-by.
- goban — a Japanese game played on a go board with players alternating and attempting to be first to place five counters in a row.
- gobar — Dried cow dung used directly as fuel or as a source of gas.
- gobat — Albert [French al-ber] /French alˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1843–1914, Swiss lawyer and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1902.
- gobbi — Tito (ˈtiːto). 1915–84, Italian operatic baritone
- gobbo — a hunchback
- gobby — fat.
- gobos — Plural form of gobo.
- gombe — a state of Nigeria, in the NE. Capital: Gombe. Pop: 2 353 879(2006). Area: 18 768 sq km (7246 sq miles)
- gombo — gumbo.
- gooby — spittle
- grebo — (slang, UK, predominantly West Midlands) A greaser or biker; a member of any alternative subculture, as opposed to a chav or townie.
- gumbo — a stew or thick soup, usually made with chicken or seafood, greens, and okra or sometimes filé as a thickener.
- habor — Khabur.
- hambo — a Swedish folk dance in three-quarter time, originating in the 16th century.
- hbook — A histogramming package in the CERN program library.
- hibol — (language) A variant of DIBOL, used in Infotec computers. HIBOL was considered to be a very high level language and significantly easier to maintain than COBOL. It uses a single type of data object, called a flow, which is an indexed stream of data values. Computation is expressed as operations acting on flows.
- himbo — an attractive but stupid young man.
- hoban — James, c1762–1831, U.S. architect, born in Ireland: designed the White House.
- hobbs — a city in New Mexico.
- hobby — an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation: Her hobbies include stamp-collecting and woodcarving.
- hobit — (military, historical) A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
- hobos — Plural form of hobo.
- horeb — a mountain sometimes identified with Mount Sinai.
- inbox — a boxlike tray, basket, or the like, as on a desk, for holding incoming mail, messages, or work.
- inorb — to enclose in or as if in an orb
- jabot — a decorative ruffle or other arrangement of lace or cloth attached at the neckline and extending down the front of a woman's blouse or dress or, formerly, of a man's shirt.
- jacob — the second son of Isaac, the twin brother of Esau, and father of the 12 patriarchs. Gen. 25:24–34.
- jambo — an E African salutation
- jbops — (business, jargon) A nickname for the major ERP and enterprise software application companies: JD Edwards, Baan, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP.
- jobed — Simple past tense and past participle of jobe.
- jobes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jobe.
- jumbo — a very large person, animal, or thing.
- kabob — Usually, kebabs. small pieces of meat or seafood seasoned or marinated and broiled, often with tomatoes, green peppers, onions, or other vegetables, usually on a skewer.
- kebob — Usually, kebabs. small pieces of meat or seafood seasoned or marinated and broiled, often with tomatoes, green peppers, onions, or other vegetables, usually on a skewer.