9-letter words containing o, s, b, r, n
- fibrinous — the insoluble protein end product of blood coagulation, formed from fibrinogen by the action of thrombin in the presence of calcium ions.
- firstborn — first in the order of birth; eldest.
- gaberones — former name of Gaborone.
- gainsboro — A light bluish grey colour.
- garbanzos — Plural form of garbanzo.
- hashbrown — Alternative spelling of hash brown.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- hornbills — Plural form of hornbill.
- hornbooks — Plural form of hornbook.
- inebrious — (archaic) intoxicated; drunk.
- jonesboro — a city in NE Arkansas.
- kerbstone — one of the stones, or a range of stones, forming a curb, as along a street.
- last-born — last in order of birth; youngest.
- lensboard — the usually removable front panel of a view camera or enlarger on which the lens is mounted.
- lounsbury — Thomas Raynesford [reynz-ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ (Show IPA), 1838–1915, U.S. linguist and educator.
- mr. bones — the end man in a minstrel troupe who plays the bones.
- neighbors — Plural form of neighbor.
- newsboard — bulletin board.
- numberous — Obsolete form of numerous.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscuring — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- observant — quick to notice or perceive; alert.
- observing — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- obstruent — Medicine/Medical. (of a substance) producing an obstruction.
- obtrusion — the act of obtruding.
- obversion — an act or instance of obverting.
- osborne 1 — (computer) A portable computer that weighed 11 kg and cost $1795, produced by Osborne Computer Corporation in 1981. The Osborne 1 came with a five-inch screen, modem port, two 5 1/4 floppy drives and a battery pack. It came with the CP/M operating system, SuperCalc spreadsheet application, WordStar, word processing application, Microsoft MBASIC programming language and Digital Research CBASIC programming language.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- ovenbirds — Plural form of ovenbird.
- owensboro — a city in NW Kentucky, on the Ohio River.
- robertson — Oscar Palmer ("The Big O") born 1938, U.S. basketball player.
- rosenberg — Alfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
- san bruno — a city in W California, S of San Francisco.
- schonberg — Arnold [ahr-nuh ld;; German ahr-nuh lt] /ˈɑr nəld;; German ˈɑr nəlt/ (Show IPA), 1874–1951, Austrian composer in the U.S.
- scrubdown — an act or instance of scrubbing, especially a thorough washing of a surface or object: The decks of the ship get a scrubdown every morning.
- sea robin — any of various gurnards, especially certain American species of the genus Prionotus, having large pectoral fins used to move across the ocean bottom.
- serbonian — of, relating to, or designating the large marshy tract of land in the northern part of ancient Egypt in which entire armies are said to have been swallowed up.
- sherborne — a town in S England in Dorset: noted for its medieval abbey, ruined medieval castle, and Sherborne Castle, a mansion built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594. Pop: 9350 (2001)
- shipborne — carried on a ship.
- signboard — a board bearing a sign.
- slow burn — a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst: I did a slow burn as the conversation progressed.
- snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
- snowberry — a North American shrub, Symphoricarpos albus, of the honeysuckle family, cultivated for its ornamental white berries.
- snowboard — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- snowbrush — a brush for clearing snow (from a car, path, etc)
- soberness — not intoxicated or drunk.
- soilborne — carried in soil
- song-bird — a bird that sings.
- sorbonist — a student or graduate of the Sorbonne.
- springbok — a gazelle, Antidorcas marsupialis, of southern Africa, noted for its habit of springing into the air when alarmed.