9-letter words containing o, s, b, r
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- ouroboros — A serpent, dragon or worm who eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.
- outboards — Plural form of outboard.
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- outbursts — Plural form of outburst.
- ovenbirds — Plural form of ovenbird.
- over-busy — actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime: busy with her work.
- overbears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbear.
- overbills — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbill.
- overbooks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbook.
- overbrush — To brush excessively.
- owensboro — a city in NW Kentucky, on the Ohio River.
- peribolos — a colonnade or wall surrounding a Classical temple
- preabsorb — to absorb beforehand or in advance
- presbyope — a person with presbyopia
- press box — a press section, especially at a sports event.
- proboscis — the trunk of an elephant.
- proscribe — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- raise hob — to cause mischief or disturbance
- re-absorb — to suck up or drink in (a liquid); soak up: A sponge absorbs water.
- reblossom — (of a plant or flower) to blossom again
- reobserve — to observe again
- resoluble — able to be redissolved.
- rheobasic — of or relating to rheobase
- rib roast — a cut of beef taken from the small end of the ribs and containing a large rib eye and two or more ribs.
- robertson — Oscar Palmer ("The Big O") born 1938, U.S. basketball player.
- rock bass — a game fish, Ambloplites rupestris, of the sunfish family, inhabiting freshwater streams of the eastern U.S.
- rose comb — a low comb with rounded points and a rear-extending spike of some breeds of chickens, as Wyandotte.
- rosenberg — Alfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
- rubtsovsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia.
- sailboard — a long board, usually of Plexiglas, used for windsurfing, having a mount for a sail, a daggerboard, and a small skeg.
- san bruno — a city in W California, S of San Francisco.
- saprobial — relating to saprobity
- sb-prolog — Stony Brook Prolog. A public domain Prolog interpreter for Unix. Version 3.1. Distributed under the GNU General Public License. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- scaraboid — of, relating to, or resembling a scarabaeid
- schomburg — Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.
- schonberg — Arnold [ahr-nuh ld;; German ahr-nuh lt] /ˈɑr nəld;; German ˈɑr nəlt/ (Show IPA), 1874–1951, Austrian composer in the U.S.
- scombroid — resembling the mackerel.
- scorbutic — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with scurvy.
- scrapbook — an album in which pictures, newspaper clippings, etc., may be pasted or mounted.
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.
- 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.
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- 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.
- seborrhea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- 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)
- shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
- shipborne — carried on a ship.
- shoebrush — a brush used in polishing shoes.