7-letter words with B in the middle
Delve into the fascinating world of words where the letter B is nestled in the middle. This section highlights the unique placement of B in various words, illustrating how it contributes to their sound and meaning. From everyday language to more unusual terms, discover how B in the middle shapes the essence of these words.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| problem | 13 | a source of difficulty | what's the problem? |
| husband | 13 | a married man; a woman's partner in marriage | - |
| trouble | 9 | a source of difficulty | one trouble after another delayed the job |
| anybody | 16 | Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person. | - |
| goodbye | 14 | a farewell remark | - |
| numbers | 11 | an illegal daily lottery | - |
| subject | 18 | a branch of knowledge | teachers should be well trained in their subject |
| obvious | 12 | easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind | obvious errors |
| garbage | 11 | a worthless message | - |
| capable | 13 | possibly accepting or permitting | a passage capable of misinterpretation |
| ability | 12 | possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done | - |
| robbery | 14 | plundering during riots or in wartime | - |
| library | 12 | a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study | - |
| rubbish | 14 | worthless material that is to be disposed of | - |
| sobbing | 12 | convulsive gasp made while weeping | - |
| abandon | 10 | a feeling of extreme emotional intensity | - |
| chamber | 16 | a room used primarily for sleeping | - |
| liberty | 12 | immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence | - |
| lesbian | 9 | a female homosexual | - |
| embrace | 13 | include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | - |
| embassy | 14 | a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work | - |
| observe | 12 | conform one's action or practice to | - |
| rainbow | 12 | an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain | - |
| cabinet | 11 | a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock | - |
| website | 12 | a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web | - |
| absence | 11 | the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy | - |
| publish | 14 | put into print | The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce |
| tobacco | 13 | aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs | - |
| robbing | 12 | - | - |
| visible | 12 | capable of being seen; or open to easy view | a visible object |
| lobster | 9 | any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae | - |
| obliged | 11 | under a moral obligation to do something | - |
| plumber | 13 | a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances | - |
| exhibit | 19 | to show, make visible or apparent | The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month |
| tribute | 9 | payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence | - |
| gilbert | 10 | a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns | - |
| rubbing | 12 | effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure | - |
| playboy | 17 | a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure | - |
| cabbage | 14 | make off with belongings of others | - |
| liberal | 9 | given or giving freely | a liberal backer of the arts |
| rebuild | 10 | build again | The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb |
| combine | 13 | gather in a mass, sum, or whole | - |
| audible | 10 | heard or perceptible by the ear | he spoke in an audible whisper |
| gambler | 12 | someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement | - |
| payback | 20 | the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | - |
| handbag | 14 | a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | - |
| mailbox | 18 | a private box for delivery of mail | - |
| tremble | 11 | a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement | - |
| standby | 13 | an actor able to replace a regular performer when required | - |
| subedit | 10 | edit and correct (written or printed material) | - |
| marbles | 11 | the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception | he still had all his marbles and was in full possession of a lively mind |
| doubled | 11 | twice as great or many | the dose is doubled |
| caliber | 11 | a degree or grade of excellence or worth | an executive of low caliber |
| hamburg | 15 | a port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League | - |
| obscene | 11 | suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | obscene telephone calls |
| newborn | 12 | a baby from birth to four weeks | - |
| puberty | 14 | the time of life when sex glands become functional | - |
| attaboy | 12 | - | - |
| cabaret | 11 | a series of acts at a night club | - |
| harbour | 12 | a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | - |
| lambert | 11 | English composer and conductor (1905-1951) | - |
| abusing | 10 | - | - |
| obscure | 11 | not drawing attention | an obscure flaw |
| doubles | 10 | badminton played with two players on each side | - |
| habitat | 12 | the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs | a marine habitat |
| disobey | 13 | refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient | He disobeyed his supervisor and was fired |
| sabbath | 14 | a day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims | - |
| eyeball | 12 | the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye | - |
| rebirth | 12 | the revival of learning and culture | - |
| abusive | 12 | expressing offensive reproach | - |
| sublime | 11 | change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting | sublime iodine |
| iceberg | 12 | a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier | - |
| abdomen | 12 | the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm | - |
| slumber | 11 | be asleep | - |
| lullaby | 12 | a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | - |
| crumble | 13 | fall into decay or ruin | - |
| wannabe | 12 | an ambitious and aspiring young person | the audience was full of Madonna wannabes |
| webster | 12 | United States politician and orator (1782-1817) | - |
| homeboy | 17 | a fellow male member of a youth gang | - |
| abigail | 10 | - | - |
| stumble | 11 | miss a step and fall or nearly fall | She stumbled over the tree root |
| labeled | 10 | bearing or marked with a label or tag | properly labeled luggage |
| crybaby | 19 | a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | - |
| eyebrow | 15 | the arch of hair above each eye | - |
| algebra | 10 | the mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations | - |
| lovable | 12 | having characteristics that attract love or affection | a mischievous but lovable child |
| jobless | 16 | not having a job | jobless transients |
| setback | 15 | an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | - |
| rebound | 10 | a movement back from an impact | - |
| dubious | 10 | open to doubt or suspicion | he has a dubious record indeed |
| rosebud | 10 | (a literary reference to) a pretty young girl | - |
| thereby | 15 | - | - |
| jukebox | 27 | a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin | - |
| garbled | 11 | lacking orderly continuity | - |
| frisbee | 12 | a light, plastic disk about 10 inches in diameter; propelled with a flip of the wrist for recreation or competition | - |
| tabloid | 10 | sensationalist journalism | - |
| robbins | 11 | United States choreographer who brought human emotion to classical ballet and spirited reality to Broadway musicals (1918-1998) | - |
| vibrant | 12 | vigorous and animated | a vibrant group that challenged the system |
| disable | 10 | make unable to perform a certain action | disable this command on your computer |
| dribble | 12 | the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | - |
| pinball | 11 | a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets | - |
| vibrate | 12 | sound with resonance | - |
| cobbler | 13 | a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit | - |
| showbiz | 24 | - | - |
| jubilee | 16 | a special anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
| minibus | 11 | a light bus (4 to 10 passengers) | - |
| robotic | 11 | resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | - |
| forbade | 13 | - | - |
| abalone | 9 | any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior | - |
| abiding | 11 | lasting a long time | an abiding belief |
| crowbar | 14 | a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge | - |
| combing | 14 | the act of drawing a comb through hair | - |
| absolve | 12 | grant remission of a sin to | The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Marys |
| tribune | 9 | (ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests | - |
| caribou | 11 | Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America | - |
| obesity | 12 | more than average fatness | - |
| sibling | 10 | a person's brother or sister | - |
| climber | 13 | an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | - |
| kibbutz | 24 | a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively | - |
| orbital | 9 | of or relating to an orbit | orbital revolution |
| outback | 15 | inaccessible and sparsely populated | - |
| cubicle | 13 | small individual study area in a library | - |
| debrief | 13 | put someone through a debriefing and make him report | The released hostages were debriefed |
| calibre | 11 | a degree or grade of excellence or worth | - |
| mobster | 11 | a criminal who is a member of gang | - |
| abolish | 12 | do away with | Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia |
| inbound | 10 | directed or moving inward or toward a center | the inbound train |
| cobwebs | 16 | - | - |
| cordoba | 12 | a city in southern Spain; center of Moorish culture | - |
| humbled | 15 | subdued or brought low in condition or status | - |
| oddball | 11 | a person with an unusual or odd personality | - |
| subdued | 11 | lacking in light; not bright or harsh | subdued lights and soft music |
| amiable | 11 | disposed to please | an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin |
| gibbons | 12 | - | - |
| inhabit | 12 | exist or be situated within | Strange notions inhabited her mind |
| sandbox | 17 | a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in | - |
| sunburn | 9 | get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | - |
| acrobat | 11 | an athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination | - |
| laborer | 9 | someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | - |
| notable | 9 | widely known and esteemed | a notable historian |
| parable | 11 | a short moral story (often with animal characters) | - |
| whereby | 18 | - | - |
| placebo | 13 | an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug | - |
| dubbing | 13 | a new soundtrack that is added to a film | - |
| abstain | 9 | choose not to consume | I abstain from alcohol |
| wallaby | 15 | any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos; often brightly colored | - |
| embargo | 12 | a government order imposing a trade barrier | - |
| labored | 10 | lacking natural ease | a labored style of debating |
| likable | 13 | (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | - |
| macabre | 13 | shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages |
| minibar | 11 | sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | - |
| microbe | 13 | a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use | - |
| probing | 12 | diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | a probing inquiry |
| dustbin | 10 | a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected | - |
| obelisk | 13 | a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote | - |
| jumbled | 19 | in utter disorder | - |
| payable | 14 | a liability account showing how much is owed for goods and services purchased on credit | the problem was to match receivables and payables in the same currency |
| jezebel | 25 | a shameless impudent scheming woman | - |
| rowboat | 12 | a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled | - |
| toolbox | 16 | a box or chest or cabinet for holding hand tools | - |
| halibut | 12 | marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes | - |
| subbing | 12 | working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence | - |
| subside | 10 | wear off or die down | The pain subsided |
| turbine | 9 | rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate | - |
| subsidy | 13 | a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public | a subsidy for research in artificial intelligence |
| carbide | 12 | a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element | - |
| airbase | 9 | - | - |
| freebie | 12 | something that is free (usually provided as part of a promotional scheme) | the road map was a freebie |
| debacle | 12 | a sound defeat | - |
| debated | 11 | - | - |
| sizable | 18 | fairly large in size | a sizable fortune |
| disband | 11 | stop functioning or cohering as a unit | - |
| sherbet | 12 | a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin | - |
| grumble | 12 | to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | he grumbled a rude response |
| clobber | 13 | informal terms for personal possessions | did you take all your clobber? |
| wetback | 18 | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | - |
| ladybug | 14 | small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests | - |
| shoebox | 19 | an oblong rectangular (usually cardboard) box designed to hold a pair of shoes | - |
| slobber | 11 | saliva spilling from the mouth | - |
| soybean | 12 | erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia | - |
| stubble | 11 | material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | - |
| notably | 12 | to a remarkable degree or extent | - |
| probate | 11 | a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate | - |
| curable | 11 | capable of being hardened by some additive or other agent | - |
| durable | 10 | existing for a long time | hopes for a durable peace |
| windbag | 14 | a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics | - |
| caboose | 11 | the area for food preparation on a ship | - |
| gobbler | 12 | male turkey | - |
| fleabag | 13 | a run-down hotel | - |
| obverse | 12 | the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides | the obverse of this issue |
| ambient | 11 | completely enveloping | the ambient air |
| gribble | 12 | - | - |
| sandbag | 11 | hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag | - |
| tombola | 11 | a lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum | - |
| tubular | 9 | constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | - |
| armband | 12 | a band worn around the upper arm | - |
| shebang | 13 | an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang' | - |
| numbing | 12 | causing numbness or insensitivity | the numbing effect of grief |
| jawbone | 19 | talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | - |
| subtext | 16 | - | - |
| sunbeam | 11 | a ray of sunlight | - |
| tumbler | 11 | pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground | - |
| abscess | 11 | symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue | - |
| ichabod | 15 | - | - |
| gabbing | 13 | - | - |
| cutback | 17 | a reduction in quantity or rate | - |
| eatable | 9 | any substance that can be used as food | - |
| affable | 15 | diffusing warmth and friendliness | an affable smile |
| caramba | 13 | - | - |
| legible | 10 | (of handwriting, print, etc.) capable of being read or deciphered | legible handwriting |
| oblique | 18 | any grammatical case other than the nominative | - |
| quibble | 20 | argue over petty things | Let's not quibble over pennies |
| abysmal | 14 | resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable | - |
| sidebar | 10 | a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story | - |
| rubbery | 14 | difficult to chew | - |
| warbler | 12 | a singer; usually a singer who adds embellishments to the song | - |
| chablis | 14 | dry white table wine of Chablis, France or a wine resembling it | - |
| fixable | 19 | - | - |
| nibbler | 11 | a biter who takes dainty repeated bites | - |
| dabbled | 13 | covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | waves dabbled with moonlight |
| tugboat | 10 | a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships | - |
| arbiter | 9 | someone with the power to settle matters at will | she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion |
| gearbox | 17 | the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed | - |
| fibbing | 15 | a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear | - |
| offbeat | 15 | (informal) strikingly unconventional | - |
| abreast | 9 | being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge | kept abreast of the latest developments |
| soluble | 9 | (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water) | - |
| soapbox | 18 | a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | - |
| unblock | 15 | make (assets) available | - |
| pageboy | 15 | a boy who is employed to run errands | - |
| disrobe | 10 | get undressed | - |
| stabber | 11 | someone who stabs another person | - |
| ebonics | 11 | a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States | - |
| enabler | 9 | - | - |
| abraxas | 16 | - | - |
| sandbar | 10 | a bar of sand | - |
| subvert | 12 | corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Do school counselors subvert young children? |
| inhibit | 12 | consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior | - |
| ignoble | 10 | not of the nobility | of ignoble (or ungentle) birth |
| lowball | 12 | make a deliberately low estimate | The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed |
| lockbox | 22 | a fireproof metal strongbox (usually in a bank) for storing valuables | - |
| movable | 14 | personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) | - |
| rebuked | 14 | - | - |
| thimble | 14 | as much as a thimble will hold | - |
| incubus | 11 | a situation resembling a terrifying dream | - |
| imbibed | 14 | - | - |
| jabbing | 19 | a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | - |
| rambler | 11 | a person whose speech or writing is not well organized | - |
| earlobe | 9 | the fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear | - |
| acerbic | 13 | sour or bitter in taste | - |
| visibly | 15 | in a visible manner | he was visibly upset |
| grubber | 12 | - | - |
| lumbago | 12 | backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc | - |
| lobbied | 12 | - | - |
| livable | 12 | fit or suitable to live in or with | livable conditions |
| jaybird | 20 | common jay of eastern North America; bright blue with grey breast | - |
| postbox | 18 | public box for deposit of mail | - |
| decibel | 12 | a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity | - |
| abetted | 10 | - | - |
| aerobic | 11 | depending on free oxygen or air | aerobic fermentation |
| tableau | 9 | a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting) | - |
| unbound | 10 | not held in chemical or physical combination | - |
| cherubs | 14 | - | - |
| flatbed | 13 | freight car without permanent sides or roof | - |
| logbook | 14 | a book in which the log is written | - |
| pliable | 11 | able to adjust readily to different conditions | - |
| crumbly | 16 | easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder | crumbly cookies |
| debased | 11 | mixed with impurities | - |
| combust | 13 | undergo combustion | - |
| scabies | 11 | a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation | - |
| stubbed | 12 | - | - |
| ribcage | 12 | - | - |
| rubicon | 11 | a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment | - |
| thumbed | 15 | (of pages) worn or soiled by thumb and fingers by frequent handling or turning | well-thumbed pages of the dictionary |
| vibrato | 12 | (music) a pulsating effect in an instrumental or vocal tone produced by slight and rapid variations in pitch | - |
| webbing | 15 | a narrow closely woven tape; used in upholstery or for seat belts | - |
| giblets | 10 | edible viscera of a fowl | - |
| lowbrow | 15 | a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits | - |
| pillbox | 18 | a small round woman's hat | - |
| sambuca | 13 | an Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice | - |
| roebuck | 15 | male roe deer | - |
| ascribe | 11 | attribute or credit to | - |
| audibly | 13 | in an audible manner | he spoke audibly |
| forbear | 12 | refrain from doing | - |
| grabber | 12 | an unpleasant person who grabs inconsiderately | - |
| firebug | 13 | a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | - |
| nabbing | 12 | - | - |
| sickbay | 18 | (nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship) | - |
| sickbed | 16 | the bed on which a sick person lies | - |
| stabile | 9 | not able or intended to be moved | - |
| temblor | 11 | shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | - |
| carbine | 11 | light automatic rifle | - |
| labella | 9 | - | - |
| marimba | 13 | a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets | - |
| orbiter | 9 | man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon | - |
| curbing | 12 | an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter) | - |
| doubter | 10 | someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something | - |
| clamber | 13 | climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | - |
| clubber | 13 | - | - |
| ribbing | 12 | the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances | his ribbing was gentle but persistent |
| taxable | 16 | (of goods or funds) subject to taxation | taxable income |
| useable | 9 | convenient for use or disposal | - |
| auberge | 10 | a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | - |
| inboard | 10 | located within the hull or nearest the midline of a vessel or aircraft | the inboard flaps on the wing |
| jacobin | 18 | a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution | - |
| feedbag | 14 | a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse); covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head | - |
| fibrous | 12 | (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | - |
| obviate | 12 | prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening | - |
| cowbell | 14 | a bell hung around the neck of cow so that the cow can be easily located | - |
| debauch | 15 | a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | - |
| cobbles | 13 | - | - |
| scrubby | 16 | sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush | open scrubby woods |
| rubdown | 13 | the act of rubbing down, usually for relaxation or medicinal purposes | - |
| verbena | 12 | any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers | - |
| cabling | 12 | - | - |
| cashbox | 21 | a strongbox for holding cash | - |
| chambre | 16 | - | - |
| gerbera | 10 | genus of South African or Asiatic herbs: African daisies | - |
| henbane | 12 | poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves and yellow-brown flowers; yields hyoscyamine and scopolamine | - |
| hibachi | 17 | a portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking | - |
| macumba | 15 | a Brazilian religious cult of African origin; combines voodoo elements with singing and chanting and dancing | - |
| mutable | 11 | capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature | a mutable substance |
| niblick | 15 | an iron with considerable loft | - |
| netball | 9 | a team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post | - |
| jigaboo | 17 | - | - |
| potable | 11 | any liquid suitable for drinking | - |
| probity | 14 | complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles | in a world where financial probity may not be widespread |
| omnibus | 11 | a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | - |
| doublet | 10 | a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance | - |
| abetter | 9 | one who helps or encourages or incites another | - |
| soubise | 9 | veloute sauce with sauteed chopped onions and whipping cream | - |
| soberly | 12 | in a grave and sober manner | he walked soberly toward the altar |
| subsist | 9 | support oneself | Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day |
| subsoil | 9 | the layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock | - |
| tilbury | 12 | - | - |
| verbose | 12 | using or containing too many words | verbose and ineffective instructional methods |
| webpage | 15 | a document connected to the World Wide Web and viewable by anyone connected to the internet who has a web browser | - |
| autobus | 9 | a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | - |
| cabbing | 14 | - | - |
| hipbone | 14 | large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis | - |
| ikebana | 13 | - | - |
| fatback | 18 | salt pork from the back of a hog carcass | - |
| filbert | 12 | small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe | - |
| knobbed | 16 | used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | a knobbed stick |
| marbled | 12 | patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble | - |
| palabra | 11 | - | - |
| crabbed | 14 | annoyed and irritable | - |
| dabbing | 13 | - | - |
| abyssal | 12 | resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable | the abyssal depths of the ocean |
| abscond | 12 | run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe |
| sawbuck | 18 | a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | - |
| stubbly | 14 | having a short growth of beard | - |
| rhombus | 14 | a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram | - |
| rubella | 9 | a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester | - |
| tenable | 9 | based on sound reasoning or evidence | - |
| voluble | 12 | marked by a ready flow of speech | she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations |
| airboat | 9 | - | - |
| amiably | 14 | in an affable manner | `Come and visit me,' he said amiably |
| gimbals | 12 | - | - |
| gobbing | 13 | - | - |
| gunboat | 10 | a small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns; used by costal patrols | - |
| inbuilt | 9 | existing as an essential constituent or characteristic | - |
| lambkin | 15 | a very young lamb | - |
| phoebus | 14 | (Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis | - |
| redoubt | 10 | an entrenched stronghold or refuge | - |
| dingbat | 11 | a silly empty-headed person | you would be a dingbat even to try it |
| colobus | 11 | arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs | - |
| shamble | 14 | walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet | - |
| tamable | 11 | capable of being tamed | - |
| tabling | 10 | - | - |
| timbrel | 11 | small hand drum similar to a tambourine; formerly carried by itinerant jugglers | - |
| wobbler | 14 | something that wobbles | - |
| tubbing | 12 | - | - |
| umbrage | 12 | a feeling of anger caused by being offended | - |
| albumin | 11 | a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids | - |
| amoebic | 13 | pertaining to or resembling amoebae | amoebic dysentery |
| freebee | 12 | something that is free (usually provided as part of a promotional scheme) | - |
| herbage | 13 | succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land | - |
| homburg | 15 | a hat made of felt with a creased crown | - |
| humbler | 14 | - | - |
| imbuing | 12 | - | - |
| febrile | 12 | of or relating to or characterized by fever | a febrile reaction caused by an allergen |
| lobbing | 12 | - | - |
| mailbag | 12 | letter carrier's shoulder bag | in Britain they call a mailbag a postbag |
| nosebag | 10 | a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse); covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head | - |
| jobbing | 19 | - | - |
| piebald | 12 | having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | a piebald horse |
| plumbum | 15 | - | - |
| cubical | 13 | shaped like a cube | - |
| deboned | 11 | having had the bones removed | a boned (or deboned) fish |
| diabolo | 10 | - | - |
| edibles | 10 | - | - |
| cohabit | 14 | exist together | - |
| abraded | 11 | - | - |
| abashed | 13 | feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | felt abashed at the extravagant praise |
| abating | 10 | - | - |
| shebeen | 12 | unlicensed drinking establishment | - |
| subplot | 11 | - | - |
| subzero | 18 | - | - |
| tallboy | 12 | a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs | - |
| ridable | 10 | - | - |
| timbale | 11 | small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods | - |
| unbaked | 14 | - | - |
| unbowed | 13 | erect in posture | stood defiantly with unbowed back |
| catbird | 12 | any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | - |
| albumen | 11 | a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids | - |
| flyable | 15 | - | - |
| friable | 12 | easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder | friable sandstone |
| gumboot | 12 | - | - |
| hambone | 14 | - | - |
| habited | 13 | dressed in a habit | the habited men of the monastery |
| hobbler | 14 | someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait | - |
| legibly | 13 | in a legible manner | you must write legibly |
| lowborn | 12 | of humble birth or origins | a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor |
| nebbish | 14 | (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton | - |
| overbid | 13 | (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand) | - |
| corbeil | 11 | - | - |
| debater | 10 | someone who engages in debate | - |
| daybook | 17 | a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | - |
| dabbler | 12 | an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | - |
| embolus | 11 | an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood | - |
| abridge | 11 | reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | - |
| absinth | 12 | strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise | - |
| saprobe | 11 | an organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic matter in stagnant or foul water | - |
| savable | 12 | - | - |
| sawbill | 12 | large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | - |
| sassaby | 12 | a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal | - |
| salable | 9 | capable of being sold; fit for sale | - |
| salably | 12 | - | - |
| salband | 10 | - | - |
| saltbox | 16 | a type of house built in New England; has two stories in front and one behind | - |
| sagbuts | 10 | - | - |
| sahibah | 15 | - | - |
| sahibas | 12 | - | - |
| sandboy | 13 | a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy' | - |
| sandbur | 10 | grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs | - |
| sambhur | 14 | - | - |
| sambuke | 15 | - | - |
| samburs | 11 | - | - |
| sambhar | 14 | - | - |
| sambars | 11 | - | - |
| sambaed | 12 | - | - |
| sambals | 11 | - | - |
| scrambs | 13 | - | - |
| scubaed | 12 | - | - |
| scumbag | 14 | - | - |
| scribal | 11 | - | - |
| scribed | 12 | - | - |
| scriber | 11 | a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut | - |
| scribes | 11 | - | - |
| scrobes | 11 | - | - |
| scarabs | 11 | - | - |
| scabrid | 12 | - | - |
| saxtuba | 16 | - | - |
| sayable | 12 | - | - |
| scabbed | 14 | - | - |
| scabble | 13 | - | - |
| scamble | 13 | - | - |
| schlubs | 14 | - | - |
| sembled | 12 | - | - |
| sembles | 11 | - | - |
| serdabs | 10 | - | - |
| scumber | 13 | - | - |
| scybala | 14 | - | - |
| scumble | 13 | the application of very thin coat of color over the surface of a picture | - |
| seaboot | 9 | - | - |
| seabird | 10 | a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc. | - |
| seabeds | 10 | - | - |
| seabags | 10 | - | - |
| seabank | 13 | - | - |
| seedbed | 11 | a bed where seedlings are grown before transplanting | - |
| seedbox | 17 | - | - |
| seeable | 9 | capable of being seen; or open to easy view | - |
| sebacic | 13 | - | - |
| sebasic | 11 | - | - |
| sebates | 9 | - | - |
| sebific | 14 | - | - |
| sebundy | 13 | - | - |
| shibahs | 15 | - | - |
| shopboy | 17 | - | - |
| showbox | 22 | - | - |
| shambas | 14 | - | - |
| shambly | 17 | - | - |
| sewable | 12 | - | - |
| shabash | 15 | - | - |
| shabble | 14 | - | - |
| shebean | 12 | - | - |
| sjambok | 22 | - | - |
| skiable | 13 | - | - |
| skibobs | 15 | - | - |
| sizably | 21 | - | - |
| sibship | 14 | - | - |
| sibylic | 14 | - | - |
| shrubby | 17 | of or relating to or resembling a shrub | - |
| slubber | 11 | - | - |
| slubbed | 12 | of textiles; having a rough surface | - |
| slumbry | 14 | - | - |
| slurban | 9 | - | - |
| skylabs | 16 | - | - |
| skyborn | 16 | - | - |
