9-letter words containing o, s, b, e
- swell box — a chamber containing a set of pipes in a pipe organ or of reeds in a reed organ, and having movable slats or shutters that can be opened or closed to increase or diminish tonal volume.
- symbioses — Biology. the living together of two dissimilar organisms, as in mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, or parasitism. (formerly) mutualism (def 1).
- symbolise — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- symbolize — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- tenebrous — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- test bore — a bore hole made to test the structure and content of the ground or soil
- throbless — pertaining to something that does not throb or pulsate or that lacks emotion
- thrombose — to become or affect with a thrombus
- tombstone — a stone marker, usually inscribed, on a tomb or grave.
- tube sock — a casual sock that is not shaped at the heel.
- tubesnout — a slender, marine fish, Aulorhynchus flavidus, inhabiting coastal waters from southern California to Alaska, having a long, tubelike snout.
- unbespoke — not prearranged
- underboss — a lesser or minor boss, often the second in command, as in an underworld hierarchy.
- unlosable — susceptible to becoming lost.
- unsoberly — in an unsober manner
- verbosely — characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy: a verbose report.
- verbosity — the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity.
- wardrobes — Plural form of wardrobe.
- webisodes — Plural form of webisode.
- webphones — Plural form of webphone.
- welsh cob — any of a breed of medium-sized riding horse, developed in Wales, with a thickset body and relatively short legs
- westabout — in, to, or towards the west
- westbound — proceeding or headed west.
- westbrook — a city in SW Maine.
- whiteboys — a secret agrarian peasant organization, active in Ireland during the early 1760s, whose members wore white shirts for recognition on their night raids to destroy crops, barns, and other property in redressing grievances against landlords and protesting the paying of tithes.
- wishbones — Plural form of wishbone.
- wobbliest — Superlative form of wobbly.
- wolfsbane — any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.
- woodbines — Plural form of woodbine.
- xenoblast — a crystal that forms in metamorphic rock and gets its outline from neighboring crystals.
- yearbooks — Plural form of yearbook.
- ytterbous — of or containing ytterbium, esp. divalent ytterbium
- zero-base — Also, zero-based. without reference to a base figure or to previous practice; according to present needs only, as opposed to a percentage increase or decrease of previous figures: zero-base planning; zero-base inventory.