4-letter words that end in b
- neeb — A kind of spirit according to Hmong beliefs.
- newb — (Internet slang, leet, sometimes, pejorative) A newbie; someone that is new at a game, or has a new character.
- nheb — New Hebrew
- nimb — A nimbus or halo.
- nkgb — (formerly) People's Commissariat of State Security: the Soviet secret police from 1943 to 1946
- nlrb — National Labor Relations Board: a US government agency which mediates disputes between management and trade unions
- noob — newbie
- ntsb — National Transportation Safety Board
- ntub — National Trade Union Bodies
- numb — deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move: fingers numb with cold.
- oodb — object-oriented database
- phub — to ignore (a person or one's surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me? I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
- pleb — a member of the plebs; a plebeian or commoner.
- pndb — perceived noise decibel
- prob — problem.
- quab — An unfledged bird.
- quib — (archaic) A quip or gibe.
- quob — (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To throb; to quiver.
- qutb — (in Sufism) the highest-ranking saint, the focal point of all spiritual energy.
- raab — Julius, 1891–1964, Austrian engineer and statesman: chancellor of Austria 1953–61.
- raob — Meteorology. a radiosonde or rawinsonde observation.
- rlab — A MATLAB-like matrix-oriented programming language/toolbox. RLaB focusses on creating a good experimental environment (or laboratory) in which to do matrix mathematics. Currently RLaB has numeric scalars and matrices (real and complex), and string scalars, and matrices. RLaB also contains a list variable type, which is a heterogeneous associative array. Version 0.95 includes an interpreter, libraries and documentation. E-mail: Ian Searle <[email protected]>. ftp://evans.ee.adfa.oz.au. Requires GNUPLOT, lib[IF]77.a (from f2c). Ported to many platforms including Unix, OS/2, Amiga.
- rnib — Royal National Institute of Blind People
- rsgb — Radio Society of Great Britain (amateur radio operators)
- rspb — Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- rtfb — (jargon) (By analogy with RTFM) Read The Fucking Binary. Used when neither documentation nor source for the problem at hand exists, and the only thing to do is use some debugger or monitor and directly analyse the assembler or even the machine code. "RTFB" is the least pejorative of the RTF? forms, the anger is directed at the absence of both source *and* adequate documentation rather than at the person asking a question.
- satb — soprano, alto, tenor, bass: a combination of voices in choral music
- scab — the incrustation that forms over a sore or wound during healing.
- serb — a person born or living in Serbia; esp., a member of a Slavic people of Serbia and adjacent areas
- sipb — Student Information Processing Board, MIT.
- slab — a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.
- sleb — a celebrity
- slib — Scheme Library
- slob — a slovenly or boorish person.
- slub — to extend (slivers of fiber) and twist slightly in carding.
- snib — a bolt, catch, lock, or fastening on a door or window.
- snob — a person who imitates, cultivates, or slavishly admires social superiors and is condescending or overbearing to others.
- snub — to treat with disdain or contempt, especially by ignoring.
- sorb — a Wend.
- stab — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
- stob — a post, stump, or stake.
- stub — a short projecting part.
- swab — a large mop used on shipboard for cleaning decks, living quarters, etc.
- swob — swab
- tomb — an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
- uv-b — ultraviolet light with a relatively short wavelength.
- verb — any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.
- vldb — Very Large DataBase
- wagb — Whistler Alpine Guides Bureau
- warb — a dirty or insignificant person