9-letter words containing a, b, o, u
- get about — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- handbound — (of books) bound by hand.
- harborous — welcoming and offering hospitality
- harboured — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harbourer — A person who harbours another.
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- hereabout — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- how about — introducing a suggestion
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- isobutane — a colorless, flammable gas, C 4 H 10 , used as a fuel, as a refrigerant, and in the manufacture of gasoline by alkylation.
- jubilatio — jubilus.
- kakebuton — a thin quilt or coverlet traditionally used when sleeping on a futon.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- kickabout — An informal amateur game of football/soccer.
- kowabunga — Alternative form of cowabunga.
- laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labourers — Plural form of labourer.
- labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- labourite — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- labourous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- layabouts — Plural form of layabout.
- lie about — sth: remain unused
- lobengula — ?1836–94, last Matabele king (1870–93); his kingdom was destroyed by the British
- lobularly — in a lobular manner
- lobulated — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
- local bus — (hardware) A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
- mad about — passionate about
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- montauban — a department in S France. 1440 sq. mi. (3730 sq. km). Capital: Montauban.
- mossbauer — Rudolf L [roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1929–2011, German physicist: Nobel prize 1961.
- mouldable — something formed in or on a mold: a mold of jelly.
- mountable — Able to be mounted.
- mouthable — able to be recited or spoken well
- nabonidus — died 539? b.c, last king of Babylonia 556–539 (father of Belshazzar).
- nanotubes — Plural form of nanotube.
- non-urban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
- nonbeauty — Absence of beauty; unbeautifulness.
- nonlabour — not relating to or concerned with work
- nonusable — not usable; unusable
- oathbound — Bound by an oath.
- obcuneate — inversely cuneate.
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- objurgate — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.