9-letter words containing s, n, r, b
- mr. bones — the end man in a minstrel troupe who plays the bones.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- naseberry — the fruit of the sapodilla, Manilkara zapota.
- nebraskan — of or relating to Nebraska.
- nebuliser — Alternative spelling of nebulizer.
- neighbors — Plural form of neighbor.
- newsboard — bulletin board.
- newsbreak — a newsworthy event or incident.
- ninebarks — Plural form of ninebark.
- 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.
- rabbinics — the Hebrew language as used by rabbis in post-Biblical times.
- rabbinism — the beliefs, practices, and precepts of the rabbis of the Talmudic period.
- rabidness — The property of being rabid.
- ramblings — If you describe a speech or piece of writing as someone's ramblings, you are saying that it is meaningless because the person who said or wrote it was very confused or insane.
- rinseable — able to be rinsed
- 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.
- rubensian — Peter Paul [pee-ter pawl;; Flemish pey-tuh r poul] /ˈpi tər pɔl;; Flemish ˈpeɪ tər paʊl/ (Show IPA), 1577–1640, Flemish painter.
- rubescent — becoming red; blushing.
- sabrewing — a large hummingbird of the genus Campylopterous, with long curved wings
- sainsbury — David John, Baron. born 1940, British businessman and politician, chief executive of the Sainsbury supermarket chain (1992–98); science minister (1998–2006)
- san bruno — a city in W California, S of San Francisco.
- sand crab — any of several crabs that live on sandy beaches, as the ghost crab or mole crab.
- sarabande — a slow, stately Spanish dance, especially of the 17th and 18th centuries, in triple meter, derived from a vigorous castanet dance.
- sarbacane — a type of blowpipe
- schonberg — Arnold [ahr-nuh ld;; German ahr-nuh lt] /ˈɑr nəld;; German ˈɑr nəlt/ (Show IPA), 1874–1951, Austrian composer in the U.S.
- screwbean — a small tree or shrub of the south-western United States that has edible pods
- scrubbing — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- 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.
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- 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.
- semiurban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
- 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.
- sevenbark — wild hydrangea.
- shebeener — a person who runs or goes to a shebeen
- shelburne — William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, William Petty Fizmaurice Lansdowne.
- 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.
- shirtband — a band of material sewn into a shirt for stiffening, finishing, or the like, as a neckband to which the collar is sewn or buttoned.