7-letter words containing eb
- hebetic — pertaining to or occurring in puberty.
- hebraic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Hebrews, their language, or their culture.
- hebrews — a member of the Semitic peoples inhabiting ancient Palestine and claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; an Israelite.
- homeboy — a person from the same locality as oneself.
- hosebag — (slang) An undesirable, boorish, unintelligent, or objectionable person; often used in jest; a hoser.
- iceball — a ball of ice or snow
- icebath — Alternative spelling of ice bath.
- iceberg — a large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and carried out to sea.
- iceboat — a vehicle for rapid movement on ice, usually consisting of a T -shaped frame on three runners driven by a fore-and-aft sailing rig or, sometimes, by an engine operating a propeller.
- ikebana — the Japanese art of arranging flowers.
- in debt — owing money
- jalebis — Plural form of jalebi.
- jezebel — Also, Douay Bible, Jezabel. the wife of Ahab, king of Israel. I Kings 16:31.
- jukebox — a coin-operated phonograph, typically in a gaudy, illuminated cabinet, having a variety of records that can be selected by push button.
- junebug — Also called May beetle. any of several large, brown beetles of the genus Phyllophaga, of the scarab family, appearing in late spring and early summer.
- kebayas — Plural form of kebaya.
- kebbock — a home-made or special cheese
- kebbuck — a cheese
- kroeber — Alfred Louis, 1876–1960, U.S. anthropologist.
- lakebed — the bottom or floor of a lake.
- lebanon — a republic at the E end of the Mediterranean, N of Israel. 3927 sq. mi. (10,170 sq. km). Capital: Beirut.
- leblanc — Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). ?1742–1806, French chemist, who invented a process for the manufacture of soda from common salt
- lovebug — An insect, Plecia nearctica, the vern honeymoon fly.
- maghreb — the Arabic name for the NW part of Africa, generally including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and sometimes Libya.
- mahaleb — a cherry, Prunus mahaleb, introduced into the U.S. from Eurasia, used as a stock in grafting cherries.
- moebius — August Ferdinand, Möbius, August Ferdinand.
- ndebele — Also called Matabele. a member of a Nguni people of the Transvaal and Zimbabwe.
- nebbish — a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
- nebulae — Astronomy. Also called diffuse nebula. a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Compare dark nebula, emission nebula, reflection nebula. (formerly) any celestial object that appears nebulous, hazy, or fuzzy, and extended in a telescope view.
- nebular — Astronomy. Also called diffuse nebula. a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Compare dark nebula, emission nebula, reflection nebula. (formerly) any celestial object that appears nebulous, hazy, or fuzzy, and extended in a telescope view.
- nebulas — Plural form of nebula.
- niebuhr — Barthold Georg [bahr-tawlt gey-awrk] /ˈbɑr tɔlt geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), 1776–1831, German historian.
- nosebag — feed bag (def 1).
- orebody — a well-defined mass of ore-bearing rock.
- pageboy — a hair style in which the hair is rolled under, usually at shoulder-length.
- pebrine — an infectious disease of silkworms, characterized by a black spotting of the integument and by stunted growth, caused by the protozoan Nosema bomycis.
- peebeen — a large hardwood evergreen tree (Syncarpia hilli) of the myrtle family, native to Australia
- peebles — a historic county in S Scotland.
- phlebo- — indicating a vein
- phoebus — Classical Mythology. Apollo as the sun god.
- piebald — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
- placebo — Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine. a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.
- plebify — to make popular or vulgar
- prebake — to bake in advance or beforehand
- prebend — a stipend allotted from the revenues of a cathedral or a collegiate church to a canon or member of the chapter.
- prebill — to issue an invoice (to someone) prior to the service being provided
- prebind — to bind beforehand
- 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