9-letter words containing o, u, b
- baragouin — incomprehensible language; gibberish
- barbarous — If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
- barfulous — /bar'fyoo-l*s/ (Or "barfucious", /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for aesthetic reasons.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- baroquely — in a baroque fashion
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- barrowful — The amount that can fit in a barrow.
- bathhouse — A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths and often other facilities such as a sauna.
- beadhouse — an almshouse in which inhabitants were expected to pray for the soul of the founder
- beauteous — Beauteous means the same as beautiful.
- beclamour — to clamour excessively
- beclouded — Simple past tense and past participle of becloud.
- bedehouse — beadhouse
- beerhouse — an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.
- befortune — to happen, befall, come about
- beglamour — to endow with glamour
- behaviour — People's or animals' behaviour is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behaviour.
- behoveful — useful; of benefit
- bell buoy — a navigational buoy fitted with a bell, the clapper of which strikes when the waves move the buoy
- bernoulli — Daniel (danjɛl), son of Jean Bernoulli. 1700–82, Swiss mathematician and physicist, who developed an early form of the kinetic theory of gases and stated the principle of conservation of energy in fluid dynamics
- bethought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
- bi-hourly — occurring every two hours.
- bibacious — tending to drink in excess
- bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
- big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- big mouth — If you say that someone is a big mouth or that they have a big mouth, you mean that they tell other people things that should have been kept secret.
- biliously — in a bilious or bad manner
- bilobular — having two lobules
- bilocular — divided into two chambers or cavities
- binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
- binovular — relating to or derived from two different ova
- binturong — an arboreal SE Asian viverrine mammal, Arctictis binturong, closely related to the palm civets but larger and having long shaggy black hair
- biofouler — an animal that obstructs or pollutes the environment
- biofueled — running on biofuel
- biogenous — the production of living organisms from other living organisms.
- bioturbed — stirred by organisms
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
- bland out — to become bland
- blank out — If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought.
- blast out — If music or noise is blasting out, loud music or noise is being produced.
- bleed out — to die as a result of losing blood through an unattended wound
- bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.
- bless you — You can say 'bless you' to someone who has just sneezed.
- blimp out — to become greatly overweight
- bliss out — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- block out — If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it.
- blockbust — to encourage the sale of property by means of blockbusting
- bloodlust — If you say that someone is driven by a bloodlust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
- bloodnoun — a bullfrog, especially Rana catesbeiana.