7-letter words containing o, s, b, r
- obscure — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- observe — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- obverse — the side of a coin, medal, flag, etc., that bears the principal design (opposed to reverse).
- orbison — Roy, 1936–88, U.S. rock and roll singer and songwriter.
- orbless — characterized by the absence of orbs
- osborne — John (James) 1929–94, English playwright.
- rasbora — any of several minnows of the genus Rasbora, inhabiting fresh waters of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, especially the silvery R. heteromorpha, that has a black triangular marking near the tail and is often kept in aquariums.
- rhombos — a wooden slat attached to a strap that makes a roaring sound when the strap is whirled. It has been associated with religious rituals throughout the world
- rhombus — an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram; any equilateral parallelogram except a square.
- ribbons — ragged strips or shreds
- ribston — a variety of winter apple, full name ribston pippin apple, grown first in Normandy and imported to Yorkshire
- robbins — Frederick C(hapman) 1916–2003, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1954.
- roberts — Henry Martyn [mahr-tn] /ˈmɑr tn/ (Show IPA), 1837–1923, U.S. engineer and authority on parliamentary procedure: author of Robert's Rules of Order (1876, revised 1915).
- robeson — Paul, 1898–1976, U.S. singer and actor.
- robusta — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- rooibos — an evergreen shrub of South Africa cultivated for tea leaves
- rosebay — any of several rhododendrons, as the great laurel of eastern North America or Rhododendron macrophyllum, of the west coast of North America.
- rosebed — a part of a garden where roses grow
- rosebud — the bud of a rose.
- rubious — being of the color of a ruby; ruby-colored.
- sanborn — a male given name.
- saprobe — saprophyte.
- scherbo — Vitaly [vee-tah-li] /viˈtɑ lɪ/ (Show IPA), born 1972, Belarusian gymnast.
- seaborg — Glenn T(heodor) 1912–1999, U.S. chemist: chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission 1961–71; Nobel prize 1951.
- skyborn — born in heaven
- slobber — to let saliva or liquid run from the mouth; slaver; drivel.
- sobered — not intoxicated or drunk.
- soberly — not intoxicated or drunk.
- sorbate — a sorbed substance.
- sorbent — a surface that sorbs.
- sorbian — of or relating to the Wends or their language.
- sorbing — to gather on a surface either by absorption, adsorption, or a combination of the two processes.
- sorbite — a hexahydric alcohol
- sorbose — a ketohexose, C 6 H 1 2 O 6 , occurring in mountain ash and obtained industrially from sorbitol by bacterial oxidation: used in the synthesis of vitamin C.
- soroban — a Japanese abacus of Chinese derivation.
- strobes — Shared Time Repair of Big Electronic Systems
- strobic — spinning or appearing to spin
- suboral — under the mouth
- subzero — indicating or recording lower than zero on some scale, especially on the Fahrenheit scale: a week of sub-zero temperatures.
- uberous — fertile; abundant; fruitful
- umbrous — shady or shadowed
- unsober — not sober
- verbose — characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy: a verbose report.
- wosbird — an illegitimate child