8-letter words containing o, r, b
- outbroke — Simple past form of outbreak.
- outburst — a sudden and violent release or outpouring: an outburst of tears.
- outthrob — to outdo in throbbing
- ovenbird — an American warbler, Seiurus aurocapillus, that builds an oven-shaped nest of leaves, twigs, etc., on the forest floor.
- overbake — (transitive) To bake for too long.
- overbank — to have the balance staff oscillate so greatly that the fork of the lever fails to engage, rendering the escapement inoperative.
- overbear — to bear over or down by weight or force: With his superior strength he easily overbore his opponent in the fight.
- overbeat — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- overbill — To bill an excessive amount, particularly an amount greater than one is legally entitled to.
- overbind — To bind or restrict to an excessive extent.
- overbite — occlusion in which the upper incisor teeth overlap the lower ones.
- overblew — Simple past form of overblow.
- overblow — to give excessive importance or value to: to overblow one's own writing.
- overboil — To boil excessively.
- overbold — Excessively bold.
- overbook — to accept reservations for in excess of the number that can be accommodated: The airline routinely overbooks its flights so as to fill its planes even if there are last-minute cancellations.
- overboot — overshoe.
- overbore — simple past tense of overbear.
- overborn — to bear over or down by weight or force: With his superior strength he easily overbore his opponent in the fight.
- overbred — to produce (offspring); procreate; engender.
- overbrim — To flow over the brim; to overflow.
- overbrow — (poetic, transitive) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
- overbulk — to dwarf or loom over in an oppressive way
- overburn — to copy (information, music, etc) onto a CD over previously recorded data
- overbusy — Excessively busy.
- overbuys — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbuy.
- overclub — to use a club which causes the shot to go too far
- overdubs — Plural form of overdub.
- oxbridge — Oxford or Cambridge University, or both, especially in contrast with the redbrick universities of England.
- panbroil — to cook in a pan with little fat or moisture
- paperboy — a youth or man who sells newspapers on the street or delivers them to homes; newsboy.
- parabola — a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane. Equation: y 2 = 2 px or x 2 = 2 py.
- parabole — a simile
- pc board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- pembroke — a borough in Dyfed, in SW Wales: birthplace of King Henry VII.
- perborax — sodium perborate.
- polybrid — a hybrid plant with more than two parental groups
- poor box — a box, especially in a church, into which contributions for the poor can be dropped.
- poor boy — Southern U.S. (chiefly Gulf States) . a hero sandwich.
- portable — portability
- portably — capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
- postburn — after injury from burns
- pourable — able to be poured
- preboard — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- pro bono — for the public good or welfare.
- pro-verb — a word that can substitute for a verb or verb phrase, as do in They never attend board meetings, but we do regularly.
- probable — likely to occur or prove true: He foresaw a probable business loss. He is the probable writer of the article.
- probably — in all likelihood; very likely: He will probably attend.
- prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.