9-letter words containing s, o, b, r, i
- octobrist — a member of a Russian political party that advocated constitutional monarchism: so called because it was organized after the Czar's manifesto in October, 1905.
- ovenbirds — Plural form of ovenbird.
- overbills — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbill.
- peribolos — a colonnade or wall surrounding a Classical temple
- 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
- 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.
- sailboard — a long board, usually of Plexiglas, used for windsurfing, having a mount for a sail, a daggerboard, and a small skeg.
- saprobial — relating to saprobity
- scaraboid — of, relating to, or resembling a scarabaeid
- scombroid — resembling the mackerel.
- scorbutic — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with scurvy.
- 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.
- 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.
- shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
- shipborne — carried on a ship.
- shorebird — a bird that frequents seashores, estuaries, etc., as the snipe, sandpiper, plover, and turnstone; a limicoline bird.
- sibilator — someone who whistles
- sideboard — a piece of furniture, as in a dining room, often with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding articles of table service.
- signboard — a board bearing a sign.
- simarouba — any tropical American tree belonging to the genus Simaruba, of the quassia family, having pinnate leaves, a fleshy fruit, and a root whose bark contains an appetite stimulant.
- skimboard — a type of short, rounded surfboard used for riding in shallow water.
- sobriquet — a nickname.
- soilborne — carried in soil
- song-bird — a bird that sings.
- sorbitize — to turn metal into a form containing sorbite
- sorbonist — a student or graduate of the Sorbonne.
- springbok — a gazelle, Antidorcas marsupialis, of southern Africa, noted for its habit of springing into the air when alarmed.
- stillborn — dead when born.
- stirabout — porridge.
- stormbird — any bird of several species of black, white, or grey seabirds belonging to the order Procellariiformes
- strobilar — of or relating to a strobila
- strobilus — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- stromboli — an island off the NE coast of Sicily, in the Lipari group.
- subeditor — a subordinate or junior editor.
- submicron — (of particles) being less than a micron in overall dimensions.
- subperiod — a subdivision of a time period
- subregion — a division or subdivision of a region, especially a division of a zoogeographical region.
- subsoiler — one who operates a subsoil plow.
- subtorrid — subtropical (def 2).
- swordbill — a South American hummingbird, Ensifera ensifera, having a slender bill that is longer than its body.
- verbosity — the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity.
- vibriosis — a venereal disease of cattle and sheep, caused by the organism Vibrio fetus, characterized by delayed female fertility and by spontaneous abortion.