4-letter words that end in b
- dumb — lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
- enob — effective number of bits
- farb — (US) A historical reenactor (especially a US civil war reenactor) whose efforts at a historically accurate portrayal are, in the opinion of the speaker, inadequate. (For example, wearing a modern wristwatch with period costume.) The opposite of farb is \"hard-core\" (or hardcore), someone who is, in the opinion of the speaker, an \"authenticity fanatic\".
- feeb — a feeble-minded person.
- flab — flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
- flib — /flib/ (WPI) A meta-number, said to be an integer between 3 and 4. See grix, N.
- flob — to spit
- flub — a blunder.
- forb — any herb that is not a grass or grasslike.
- frab — to harass; to nag
- frib — a short heavy-conditioned piece of wool removed from a fleece during classing
- frob — (jargon, MIT) Any small device or object (usually hand-sized) which can be manipulated.
- gamb — the foreleg of an animal
- garb — a fashion or mode of dress, especially of a distinctive, uniform kind: in the garb of a monk.
- gerb — A firework that produces a fountain of sparks.
- glib — readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
- glob — a drop or globule of a liquid.
- glub — The sound of underwater bubbles, or of water bubbling (often used repetitively).
- gpib — IEEE 488
- grab — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
- grib — GRid In Binary. The World Meteorological Organization's data format.
- grub — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- guib — bushbuck.
- heeb — (slang, US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Jew.
- herb — a male given name, form of Herbert.
- iamb — a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, as in Come live / with me / and be / my love.
- jamb — Architecture, Building Trades. either of the vertical sides of a doorway, arch, window, or other opening. either of two stones, timbers, etc., forming the sidepieces for the frame of an opening.
- jebb — Sir Richard Claverhouse [klav-er-hous] /ˈklæv ərˌhaʊs/ (Show IPA), 1841–1905, Scottish scholar of classical Greek.
- jibb — to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
- joab — a commander of David's army and the slayer of Abner and Absalom. II Sam. 3:27; 18:14.
- kalb — Baron, Johann Kalb.
- kemb — Obsolete form of comb.
- kerb — curb (defs 1, 15).
- knab — (colloquial) To nab or steal.
- knob — a projecting part, usually rounded, forming the handle of a door, drawer, or the like.
- knub — the point, gist, or heart of something.
- krab — Short for carabiner.
- lamb — Charles ("Elia") 1775–1834, English essayist and critic.
- lapb — Link Access Protocol Balanced
- larb — A popular Laotian or Thai spicy diced-meat salad with ground, chopped, or minced meat and vegetables.
- lfib — Label Forwarding Information Base
- lheb — Late Hebrew
- limb — Astronomy. the edge of the disk of the sun, a moon, or a planet.
- loeb — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, German physiologist and experimental biologist in the U.S.
- loob — (mining, dialect) The clay or slime washed from tin ore in dressing.
- mlab — Modeling LABoratory. An interactive mathematical modelling system.
- moab — an ancient kingdom E of the Dead Sea, in what is now Jordan.
- moob — (slang, usually in plural) A plump or untoned breast on a man.
- musb — Bachelor of Music
- myob — (chat) mind your own business.