9-letter words containing lb
- hillbilly — a term used to refer to a person from a backwoods or other remote area, especially from the mountains of the southern U.S. (sometimes used facetiously).
- inselberg — monadnock (def 1).
- jailbaits — a girl with whom sexual intercourse is punishable as statutory rape because she is under the legal age of consent.
- jailbirds — Plural form of jailbird.
- jailbreak — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- keelboats — Plural form of keelboat.
- kielbasas — Plural form of kielbasa.
- lightbulb — Alternative spelling of light bulb.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- melbourne — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- millboard — a strong, thick pasteboard used to make book covers.
- nailbiter — the act or practice of biting one's fingernails, especially as the result of anxiety or nervousness.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- ovalbumin — the principal protein of egg white.
- pachelbel — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1706, German organist and composer.
- pedalboat — a boat that is propelled by operating the pedals, usually one hired for pleasure
- quillback — a carpsucker, Carpiodes cyprinus, inhabiting waters in the central and eastern U.S., having one ray of the dorsal fin greatly elongated.
- sailboard — a long board, usually of Plexiglas, used for windsurfing, having a mount for a sail, a daggerboard, and a small skeg.
- schoolbag — a bag used for carrying books, school supplies, etc.
- schoolboy — a boy attending school.
- schulberg — Budd [buhd] /bʌd/ (Show IPA), 1914–2009, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and scenarist.
- shelburne — William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, William Petty Fizmaurice Lansdowne.
- shellback — an old sailor.
- shellbark — the shagbark tree.
- soilborne — carried in soil
- spellbind — to hold or bind by or as if by a spell; enchant; entrance; fascinate.
- spielberg — Steven, born 1947, U.S. film director.
- stillborn — dead when born.
- stoolball — an English country game resembling cricket and played by young women
- tailboard — the tailgate, especially of a wagon or truck.
- talbotype — calotype.
- tollbooth — a booth, as at a bridge or the entrance to a toll road, where a toll is collected.
- walbrzych — a city in SW Poland, in Silesia.
- wallboard — material manufactured in large sheets for use in making or covering walls, ceilings, etc., as a substitute for wooden boards or plaster.
- wellbeing — a good or satisfactory condition of existence; a state characterized by health, happiness, and prosperity; welfare: to influence the well-being of the nation and its people.
- wheelbase — the distance from the center of the front-wheel spindle to the center of the rear-wheel axle.
- whirlbone — Alternative form of whirl-bone.
- wilbraham — a city in SW Massachusetts.
- wilburite — a member of a conservative body of Quakers formed in 1845 in protest against the evangelicalism of the Gurneyites.