7-letter words containing r, o, b, e
- orbless — characterized by the absence of orbs
- orebody — a well-defined mass of ore-bearing rock.
- osborne — John (James) 1929–94, English playwright.
- outbred — Simple past tense and past participle of outbreed.
- overbed — fitting over a bed
- overbet — to bet too much or more than the usual or permitted amount
- overbid — to bid more than the value of (a thing): to overbid one's cards.
- overbig — too big
- overbuy — to purchase in excessive quantities.
- overdub — to add other recorded sound or music, as a supplementary instrumental or vocal track, to a taped musical track to complete or enhance a recording.
- potherb — any herb prepared as food by cooking in a pot, as spinach, or added as seasoning in cookery, as thyme.
- preboil — to boil (food etc) before (cooking, roasting, etc)
- prebook — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
- preboom — of the period before an economic boom; existing or occurring prior to an economic boom
- preborn — not yet born
- pre\box — (computer) Phase 5's Amiga clone, announced on 1998-03-10. The pre\box will have a processor card with four PowerPC processors running in parallel. The processors will range from four 200 MHz PPC604e chips to four 300MHz PPC750 chips. It will have a Voodoo2 video graphics card, as well as a custom video chip working in concert, with 8 MB of video ram. It will run Amiga OS 3.1 (or higher if Gateway 2000 delivers the next upgrade before its release) and have Motorola 68000 CPU emulation in software. Other features include EIDE, Ultra Wide SCSI-II, PCI, Ethernet and DIMM sockets. Extra RAM, hard disks and CD-ROM will be available. The initial specification will probably be 32MB RAM, 32-speed CD and 4GB hard disk in an ATX minitower. Systems should start at about $2000 for four parallel 200 MHZ CPUs and be available at the end of 1998.
- probate — Law. the official proving of a will as authentic or valid in a probate court.
- problem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
- proverb — a word that can substitute for a verb or verb phrase, as do in They never attend board meetings, but we do regularly.
- re-boil — to boil again
- reblock — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
- rebloom — (of a plant or flower) to bloom again
- reboant — resounding or reverberating loudly.
- reboard — a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.
- rebound — to bound or spring back from force of impact.
- red box — (in Britain) a box, typically covered in red leather, used to transport the official documents of a government minister
- redbone — an American hound having a red coat, used in hunting raccoons, bears, cougars, and wildcats.
- redoubt — Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3108 meters).
- reprobe — to search into or examine thoroughly; question closely: to probe one's conscience.
- roadbed — Railroads. the bed or foundation structure for the track of a railroad. the layer of ballast immediately beneath the ties of a railroad track.
- robbery — the act, the practice, or an instance of robbing.
- roberta — a female given name: derived from Robert.
- 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.
- roebuck — a male roe deer.
- romberg — Sigmund [sig-muh nd] /ˈsɪg mənd/ (Show IPA), 1887–1951, Hungarian composer of light opera, in the U.S. after 1913.
- ropable — capable of being roped.
- 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.
- rowable — able to be rowed
- rubeola — measles.
- 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.
- 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.