7 Letter 12 Letter Wordle Words Ending With B

ALB (5) [noun] A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments. ARB (5) [noun] The act of or potential for arbitrage. | [noun] One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur. | [noun] An arboretum. BIB (7) [noun] An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating. | [noun] Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem. | [noun] A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by entrants in a race. | [verb] To beep (e.g. a car horn). BOB (7) [noun] A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement. | [noun] A curtsy. | [noun] A bobber (buoyant fishing device). | [noun] A bob haircut. | [noun] (Kenya) A shilling. | [noun] A dish made of small pieces of meat, with or without vegetables, which are skewered on a wooden or metal stick and roasted in an oven or over an open fire. | [noun] A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers. BUB (7) [noun] An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer. | [noun] A woman's breast. | [noun] A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby. | [noun] A baby. | [noun] Champagne; bubbly. CAB (7) [noun] A taxi; a taxicab. | [noun] Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver | [noun] Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower | [noun] A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure. | [noun] Initialism of chest compressions, airway and breathing. COB (7) [noun] A male swan. | [noun] A corncob. | [noun] A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread. | [verb] To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle. | [noun] Initialism of contingency operating base. CUB (7) [noun] A young fox. | [noun] (by extension) The young of certain other animals, including the bear, wolf, lion and tiger. | [noun] A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy. | [noun] A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status. The stereotype includes having speech and mannerisms that are considered to denote poor education and uncultured upbringing, which is reflected in their bad taste possessions and lifestyles. DAB (6) [noun] A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow. | [noun] A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval. | [noun] A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance. | [noun] One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept. | [noun] A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder. | [adjective] (costers) Bad. DEB (6) [noun] Debutante ball or debut. | [noun] A young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society. | [noun] A female debutant, especially in sport and entertainment. DIB (6) [noun] A dibber (gardening tool) | [noun] One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints. | [verb] To dig a hole by poking; especially, to dig a small hole in soil for the purpose of planting a bulb or seed | [verb] (sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws). DUB (6) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. | [noun] A blow, thrust, or poke. | [noun] An unskillful, awkward person. | [noun] A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed. | [noun] A pool or puddle. | [noun] A twenty dollar sack of marijuana. | [noun] A lock. EBB (7) [noun] The receding movement of the tide. | [noun] A gradual decline. | [noun] A low state; a state of depression. FIB (8) [noun] A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential. | [noun] A liar. | [verb] To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially. | [noun] The fibula. | [verb] (thieves cant) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike. | [noun] A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number. FOB (8) [noun] A little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold a pocketwatch; a watch pocket. | [noun] A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch. | [noun] A small ornament attached to such a chain. (See Usage Notes below) | [verb] To cheat, to deceive, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone. FUB (8) GAB (6) [noun] Idle chatter. | [noun] The mouth or gob. | [noun] One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines. GIB (6) [noun] A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place. | [noun] A castrated male cat or ferret. | [noun] A male cat; a tomcat. | [noun] Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters. | [noun] Plasterboard. GOB (6) [noun] A lump of soft or sticky material. | [noun] The mouth. | [noun] Saliva or phlegm. HOB (8) [noun] A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear. | [noun] The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm. | [noun] The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'. | [noun] A fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey. HUB (8) [noun] The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. | [noun] A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted. | [noun] A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub JAB (12) [noun] A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion. | [noun] A short straight punch. | [noun] A medical injection. JIB (12) [noun] A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast. | [noun] (usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast. | [verb] To shift, or swing around, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking. | [noun] The projecting arm of a crane. | [noun] One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward. | [noun] Crystal meth. | [noun] The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth. JOB (12) [noun] A task. | [noun] An economic role for which a person is paid. | [noun] (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery. KAB (9) KOB (9) [noun] An African antelope closely related to the lechwe and the waterbuck, Kobus kob. | [noun] Any of several large game fish of the family Sciaenidae, especially the kabeljou (Dusky Kob or Great Kob), or perhaps the smaller Squaretail Kob. LAB (5) [noun] A laboratory. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result. | [noun] A Labrador retriever. | [noun] A telltale; a blabber. LIB (5) [noun] Liberal | [noun] Liberation | [noun] Library | [noun] A potion; magic potion; charm. | [verb] To geld; castrate; emasculate (usually said of animals). LOB (5) [noun] (ball sports) A pass or stroke which arches high into the air. | [verb] To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch. | [verb] To throw. | [noun] A lump. | [noun] A fish, the European pollock. | [verb] To cob (chip off unwanted pieces of stone). MIB (7) MOB (7) [noun] A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action. | [noun] A group of animals such as horses or cattle. | [noun] A flock of emus. | [noun] A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute. | [noun] Mobile phone NAB (5) [verb] To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive). | [verb] To grab or snatch something. | [noun] The summit of an eminence. NEB (5) [noun] A bird's beak or bill. | [noun] A person's mouth. | [noun] A person's nose. NIB (5) [noun] The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper. | [noun] The bill or beak of a bird; the neb. | [noun] Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces. NOB (5) [noun] The head. | [noun] A jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer. (See also nibs.) | [noun] The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis. (Also spelled knob.) NUB (5) ORB (5) [noun] A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star | [noun] One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions | [noun] A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit | [noun] A blank window or panel. PUB (7) [noun] A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television. | [noun] A public server. | [verb] To go to one or more public houses. | [noun] The act of publishing printed or other matter. | [verb] To publish REB (5) [noun] A Confederate soldier. | [noun] Shortened form of Rebbe. | [noun] An honorific used by traditional Jews, much like sir and mister/Mr. RIB (5) [noun] Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum | [noun] A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something | [noun] A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones | [noun] Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale). ROB (5) [verb] To steal from, especially using force or violence. | [verb] To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud. | [verb] (used with "of") To deprive (of). | [noun] The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches a syrupy consistency. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar. RUB (5) [noun] An act of rubbing. | [noun] A difficulty or problem. | [noun] A quip or sarcastic remark. SAB (5) [noun] A saboteur, especially of fox hunts. | [verb] To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports. SIB (5) [adjective] Having kinship or relationship; related by same-bloodedness; having affinity; being akin; kindred. | [noun] Kindred; kin; kinsmen; a body of persons related by blood in any degree. | [noun] A kinsman; a blood relation; a relative, near or remote; one closely allied to another; an intimate companion. | [verb] To bring into relation; establish a relationship between; make friendly; reconcile. | [verb] To engage in repetitive behaviors such as eye-poking, skin-picking, hand-biting, or head-banging. SOB (5) [noun] A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath. | [noun] Sound of sob | [verb] To weep with convulsive gasps. | [verb] To soak. SUB (5) [noun] A submarine. | [noun] A submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun. | [noun] A substitute, often in sports. | [verb] To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating. TAB (5) [noun] A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc. | [noun] An ear. | [noun] (by extension) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls. | [noun] A restaurant bill. | [noun] A cigarette. | [noun] A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments. | [noun] (British slang) A student of Cambridge University. | [noun] A tabloid newspaper. | [noun] A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs. | [noun] A tableau curtain. TUB (5) [noun] A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in. | [noun] The contents or capacity of such a vessel. | [noun] A bathtub. URB (5) WAB (8) WEB (8) [proper noun] The World Wide Web. | [noun] The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb. | [noun] (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web. YOB (8) [noun] (costers, backslang) A boy. | [noun] A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.

BARB (8) [noun] The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. | [noun] A hurtful or disparaging remark. | [noun] A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. | [noun] The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors. | [noun] A barbiturate. BIBB (10) [noun] A bibcock. BLAB (8) [noun] One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper. | [noun] Gossip; prattle. | [verb] To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion. BLEB (8) [noun] A bubble, such as in paint or glass. | [noun] A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid. | [noun] An irregular bulge in the plasma membrane of a cell undergoing apoptosis. BLOB (8) [noun] A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape. | [noun] In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy. | [noun] A bubble; a bleb. | [noun] Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length). BLUB (8) [noun] The act of blubbing. | [verb] To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval). | [verb] To swell; to puff out, as with weeping. BOMB (10) [noun] An explosive device used or intended as a weapon. | [noun] A failure; an unpopular commercial product. | [noun] A large amount of money. BOOB (8) [noun] Idiot, fool. | [verb] To behave stupidly; to act like a boob. | [verb] To make a mistake | [noun] A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent human female. | [noun] A prison; jail. BULB (8) [noun] Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end. | [noun] A light bulb. | [noun] The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown. CARB (8) [noun] Clipping of carburettor / carburetor. | [noun] (nutrition) A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant. | [noun] (by extension, metonym) Any food rich in starch or other carbohydrates. CHUB (11) [noun] One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially: | [noun] (by extension) Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes. | [noun] A chubby, plump person. CLUB (8) [noun] An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation. | [noun] A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything. | [noun] A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund. COBB (10) COMB (10) [noun] A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. | [noun] A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. | [noun] A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest. | [noun] (abbreviation) Combination. | [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river CRAB (8) [noun] A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace. | [noun] The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat | [noun] A bad-tempered person. | [noun] The crab apple or wild apple. | [noun] The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America. | [noun] Short for carabiner. CRIB (8) [noun] A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet. | [noun] A bed for a child older than a baby. | [noun] A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel CURB (8) [noun] A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand) | [noun] A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening. | [noun] Something that checks or restrains; a restraint. DARB (7) DAUB (7) [noun] Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction. | [noun] A soft coating of mud, plaster etc. | [noun] A crude or amateurish painting. DRAB (7) DRIB (7) DRUB (7) [noun] Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal. | [verb] To beat (someone or something) with a stick. | [verb] To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. DUMB (9) [adjective] Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind"). | [adjective] Silent; unaccompanied by words. | [adjective] (especially of a person) Extremely stupid. | [verb] To silence. FLAB (9) [noun] Soft, loose flesh on a person's body; fat. FLUB (9) [noun] An error; a mistake in the performance of an action. | [verb] To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action. FORB (9) [noun] Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush). GAMB (9) GARB (7) [noun] Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. | [noun] A type of dress or clothing. | [noun] A guise, external appearance. | [noun] A wheat sheaf. GLIB (7) [verb] To make glib. | [adjective] Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow. | [adjective] Smooth or slippery. | [noun] A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in Ireland. | [verb] To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. GLOB (7) [noun] A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance. | [noun] A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression. | [noun] A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway. GRAB (7) [noun] A sudden snatch at something. | [noun] An acquisition by violent or unjust means. | [noun] A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. | [noun] A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast. GRUB (7) [noun] An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva. | [noun] Food. | [noun] A short, thick man; a dwarf. HERB (9) [noun] Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food. | [noun] A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine. | [noun] Marijuana. IAMB (8) [noun] A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. JAMB (15) [noun] (interior decorating) Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace. | [noun] Any thick mass of rock that prevents miners from following the lode or vein. | [verb] To fix or attach a jamb to. JIBB (15) KERB (10) [noun] The edge between the pavement and the roadway, consisting of a line of kerbstones. | [noun] A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb. | [verb] To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb. KNOB (10) [noun] A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle. | [noun] A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers. | [noun] A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand. LAMB (8) [noun] A young sheep. | [noun] The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food. | [noun] A person who is meek, docile and easily led. LIMB (8) [noun] A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing). | [noun] A branch of a tree. | [noun] The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip. | [noun] The apparent visual edge of a celestial body. NUMB (8) [verb] To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally). | [verb] To cause (a feeling) to be less intense. | [verb] To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute. PLEB (8) [noun] A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society. | [noun] A common person, an unsophisticated or cultureless person. | [noun] (usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy. SCAB (8) [noun] An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. | [noun] The scabies. | [noun] The mange, especially when it appears on sheep. SIBB (8) SLAB (6) [noun] A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat. | [noun] A paving stone; a flagstone. | [noun] A carton containing 24 cans of beer. | [noun] Mud, sludge. | [noun] A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories. SLOB (6) [noun] A lazy and slovenly person. | [noun] A lazy and obese person. SLUB (6) [noun] A small thickened portion or knot found on linen yarn, caused by defects. | [noun] Fabric fiber produced by slubbing. | [verb] To draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning. SNIB (6) [noun] A latch or fastening for a door, window etc. | [noun] A reprimand; a snub. | [verb] To latch (a door, window etc.). SNOB (6) [noun] A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. | [noun] A cobbler or shoemaker. | [noun] A member of the lower classes; a commoner. SNUB (6) [noun] A deliberate affront or slight. | [noun] A sudden checking of a cable or rope. | [noun] A knot; a protuberance; a snag. | [verb] To sob with convulsions. SORB (6) [noun] The service tree, Sorbus domestica. | [noun] Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia. | [noun] The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree. | [verb] To absorb or adsorb. STAB (6) [noun] An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object. | [noun] A wound made by stabbing. | [noun] Pain inflicted on a person's feelings. STOB (6) [noun] A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting. | [noun] A small post for supporting paling. | [noun] A wedge in coal-mining. STUB (6) [noun] Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump. | [noun] A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes. | [noun] A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. SWAB (9) [noun] A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. SWOB (9) [noun] A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. TOMB (8) [noun] A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed. | [noun] A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave. | [noun] One who keeps secrets. VERB (9) [noun] (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state. | [noun] Any word; a vocable. | [noun] An action as opposed to a trait or thing. WOMB (11) [noun] In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus. | [noun] The abdomen or stomach. | [noun] The stomach of a person or creature.

ACERB (9) [adjective] Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit. | [adjective] Sharp and harsh in expressing oneself. ARDEB (8) [noun] An Egyptian unit of dry measure, equal to about 5.6 bushels. BLURB (9) [noun] A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes. | [verb] To write or quote in a blurb. | [verb] To supply with a blurb. CABOB (11) [noun] Pieces of meat and vegetables cooked on a skewer; a kebab. CAROB (9) [noun] An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region. | [noun] The fruit of that tree. | [noun] A sweet chocolate-like confection made with the pulp of the fruit. CELEB (9) [noun] A celebrity; a famous person. CHIMB (14) [noun] The top of a ridge. | [noun] The spine of an animal. | [noun] A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. CLIMB (11) [noun] An act of climbing. | [noun] The act of getting to somewhere more elevated. | [noun] An upwards struggle CLOMB (11) [verb] To ascend; rise; to go up. | [verb] To mount; to move upwards on. | [verb] To scale; to get to the top of something. COOMB (11) [noun] An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels. | [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river | [noun] A cirque. CRUMB (11) [noun] A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread). | [noun] A small piece of other material, such as rubber. | [noun] A bit, small amount. CUBEB (11) [noun] The tailed pepper, Piper cubeba; an Indonesian plant cultivated for its berries and essential oil. DEMOB (10) [noun] Demobilization; release from military service. | [verb] To demobilize; to release someone from military service. DWEEB (11) [noun] (originally college slang) A boring, studious, or socially inept person. EXURB (14) [noun] A residential area beyond the suburbs. KABAB (13) KABOB (13) [noun] A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab. | [noun] A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer. | [noun] The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure. KEBAB (13) [noun] A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab. | [noun] A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer. | [noun] The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure. KEBOB (13) NABOB (9) [noun] An Indian ruler within the Mogul empire. | [noun] (by extension) Someone of great wealth or importance. | [noun] (by extension) A person with a grandiose style or manner. NAWAB (10) [noun] A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polyura. PLUMB (11) [noun] A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction. | [noun] A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water. | [noun] The perpendicular direction or position. | [noun] The fruit and its tree. REDUB (8) REHAB (10) [noun] Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs. | [noun] An institution for rehabilitation. | [verb] To rehabilitate. RHOMB (12) [noun] A rhombus. | [noun] A rhombohedron. RHUMB (12) [noun] A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle | [noun] One of the 32 points of the compass (compass points) | [noun] A unit of angular measure equal to 1/32 of a circle or 11.25° SAHIB (10) [noun] A term of respect for a white European or other person of rank in colonial India. SCRUB (9) [noun] One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. | [noun] One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks. | [noun] A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant | [noun] An instance of scrubbing. SHRUB (10) [noun] A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base. | [verb] To lop; to prune. | [verb] (Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation. | [noun] A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur. SLURB (7) SQUAB (16) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken. | [noun] The meat of such a baby bird used as food. | [noun] A baby rook. SQUIB (16) [noun] A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode. | [noun] A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc. | [noun] A kind of slow match or safety fuse. THROB (10) [noun] A beating, vibration or palpitation. | [verb] To pound or beat rapidly or violently. | [verb] To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm. THUMB (12) [noun] The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers. | [noun] The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider. | [noun] A thumbnail picture. ZINEB (16) [noun] An organic fungicide and insecticide sprayed on cereal grasses, fruit trees, etc.

ABSORB (10) [verb] To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up. | [verb] To engulf, as in water; to swallow up. | [verb] To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in. ADSORB (9) [verb] To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption ADVERB (12) [noun] (grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses. | [verb] To make into or become an adverb. APLOMB (12) [noun] Self-confidence; poise; composure. | [noun] The apparent elegance and precision exhibited by a confident, accomplished dancer. | [noun] The perpendicular; perpendicularity. BAOBAB (12) [noun] A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits. BEDAUB (11) [verb] To smear upon; to soil. | [verb] To ornament garishly; to overdecorate. BEDUMB (13) BENUMB (12) [verb] To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic. | [verb] To deaden, dull (the mind, faculties, etc.). BICARB (12) [noun] Bicarbonate. CHERUB (13) [noun] A winged creature attending God, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim; similar to a lamassu in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts. | [noun] An artistic depiction of such a being, typically in the form of a winged child or a child's head with wings but no body. | [noun] A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent. COBWEB (15) [noun] A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads. | [noun] One of its filaments; gossamer | [noun] Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder. CONFAB (13) [noun] A casual conversation; a chat. | [noun] A fabricated memory believed to be true. | [verb] To speak casually with; to chat. CORYMB (15) [noun] A cluster of flowers with a flat or convex top. DESORB (9) [verb] (of a substance) To remove (or be removed) from a surface onto which it was adsorbed or through which it was absorbed ENTOMB (10) [verb] To deposit in a tomb. | [verb] To confine in restrictive surroundings. ENWOMB (13) HABOOB (13) [noun] A violent sandstorm or duststorm in the deserts of Arabia, North Africa, India, or North America. HOBNOB (13) [noun] A toast made while touching glasses together. | [noun] A drinking together. | [noun] An informal chat. HUBBUB (15) [noun] A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket. | [verb] To cause a tumult or racket. INTOMB (10) LIBLAB (10) MIDRIB (11) [noun] The strengthened vein down the middle of a flower petal or simple leaf or leaflet. | [noun] The continuation of the petiole of a pinnately compound leaf around which the leaflets attach. MIHRAB (13) [noun] A niche in a mosque that indicates the qibla (direction of Mecca), and into which the imam prays | [noun] A design in a Muslim prayer mat with the same function MILNEB (10) PREFAB (13) [noun] A prefabricated building. | [noun] A prefabricated section of a building. | [noun] A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use. RECOMB (12) RESORB (8) [verb] To absorb (something) again. | [verb] To undergo resorption. | [verb] To dissolve (bone, sinew, suture, etc.) and assimilate it. REVERB (11) [noun] (audio effects) An electronic effect which simulates echoes or reverberations in the sound signal being processed. | [verb] To echo. | [verb] To apply a reverb (electronic echo effect) to. SCARAB (10) [noun] A beetle of the species Scarabaeus sacer, sacred to the ancient Egyptians. | [noun] Any species of beetle belonging to the family Scarabaeidae. | [noun] A symbol, seal, amulet, or gem fashioned to resemble the sacred beetle. SERDAB (9) SKIBOB (14) SUBDEB (11) SUBURB (10) [noun] A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc. | [noun] (by extension) The outer part; the environment. | [noun] Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery. SUPERB (10) [adjective] First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good. | [adjective] Grand; magnificent; august; stately. | [adjective] Haughty. UNCURB (10)

BATHTUB (14) [noun] A large container for holding water in which a person may bathe (take a bath). BLOWJOB (21) [noun] (sex) An act of fellatio, or sucking a penis or other phallic object (such as a dildo). Stimulation of a somebody's penis or testicles with a person's lips, tongue or mouth with the purpose of giving the receiver sexual pleasure. It may or may not result in orgasm. | [noun] Excessive praise. CORNCOB (13) [noun] The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows. | [verb] (of turbines and rotor blades) to disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis | [verb] To destroy, to destruct, to defeat COULOMB (13) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electric charge; the amount of electric charge carried by a current of 1 ampere flowing for 1 second. Symbol: C COWHERB (17) [noun] A plant of the pink family with small pink or white flowers, found in temperate regions. COXCOMB (22) [noun] The cap of a court jester, adorned with a red stripe. | [noun] The fleshy red pate of a rooster. | [noun] (by extension) A foolish or conceited person; a dandy. DISTURB (10) [noun] Disturbance | [verb] To confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids. | [verb] To divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing. FLUBDUB (15) MINICAB (13) [noun] A small car used as a taxi (rather than a traditional black cab). | [noun] An unlicensed taxi. | [verb] To drive a minicab. MINILAB (11) OVERDUB (13) [noun] (sound engineering) An overdubbed part. | [verb] (sound engineering) To record a part along with an already recorded part or parts. PEDICAB (14) [noun] A tricycle having a hooded cab to seat paying passengers. PERTURB (11) [verb] To disturb; to bother or unsettle. | [verb] To slightly modify the motion of an object. | [verb] To modify the motion of a body by exerting a gravitational force. POTHERB (14) [noun] Any plant whose leaves, stems or flowers may be used as a culinary herb. PROVERB (14) [noun] A phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations. | [noun] A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable. | [noun] A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference. REPLUMB (13) RHUBARB (14) [noun] Any plant of the genus Rheum, especially Rheum rhabarbarum, having large leaves and long green or reddish acidic leafstalks that are edible, in particular when cooked (although the leaves are mildly poisonous). | [noun] The leafstalks of common rhubarb or garden rhubarb (usually known as Rheum × hybridum), which are long, fleshy, often pale red, and with a tart taste, used as a food ingredient; they are frequently stewed with sugar and made into jam or used in crumbles, pies, etc. | [noun] The dried rhizome and roots of Rheum palmatum (Chinese rhubarb) or Rheum officinale (Tibetan rhubarb), from China, used as a laxative and purgative. | [noun] (originally theater) General background noise caused by several simultaneous indecipherable conversations, which is created in films, stage plays, etc., by actors repeating the word rhubarb; hence, such noise in other settings; rhubarb rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb. SANDDAB (11) SUCCUMB (15) [verb] To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire. | [verb] To give up, or give in. | [verb] To die. TAXICAB (18) [noun] A vehicle that passengers hire to take them between locations of their choice, the fare being calculated with a taximeter; a taxi or cab | [verb] To travel by taxicab. UPCLIMB (15) WASHTUB (15) [noun] A tub used for washing clothes.

ANTISNOB (10) BACKSTAB (18) [verb] To betray someone by attacking them treacherously, especially when they are vulnerable or unaware. | [verb] In sports or games, to attack an opponent from behind. CATACOMB (16) [noun] (often plural) An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or Ancient Rome. CHORIAMB (17) [noun] A choriambus. CORNCRIB (14) [noun] A slatted bin for drying corn (maize). DIVEBOMB (18) [verb] (of an aircraft) To bomb whilst in a steep dive. | [verb] (of a bird) To attack (especially the head of) a person or animal that strays into their territory. | [verb] (of a motorist) To overtake slower traffic by way of a more circuitous route, such as a pair of freeway exit and entrance ramps. DOORJAMB (20) DOORKNOB (15) [noun] A circular device attached to a door, the rotation of which permits the unlatching of the door. FIREBOMB (17) [noun] A weapon that causes fire, an incendiary weapon. | [verb] To attack with a firebomb. FORELIMB (15) [noun] The anterior limb (or equivalent appendage) of an animal HECATOMB (17) [noun] A great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen. | [noun] (by extension) Any great sacrifice; a great number of people, animals or things, especially as sacrificed or destroyed; a large amount. LANDGRAB (12) [noun] A landrush. | [verb] To acquire land that one does not have a right to possess. MEMSAHIB (17) [noun] (as a respectful term of address) A white European woman in colonial India. OUTCLIMB (14) OUTCLOMB (14) OUTTHROB (13) REABSORB (12) [verb] To absorb again. SILLABUB (12) [noun] A drink dating back to the 16th century consisting primarily of milk curdled with an alcoholic beverage or some acid such as lemon juice, which is usually then sweetened and spiced. | [noun] Also everlasting syllabub or solid syllabub: a dessert pudding derived from the drink. | [noun] Something lacking substance; something frothy, insubstantial, or lightweight. SILLIBUB (12) SPARERIB (12) [noun] A cut of meat including the rib bones. SUBSHRUB (15) [noun] A low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base. SYLLABUB (15) [noun] A drink dating back to the 16th century consisting primarily of milk curdled with an alcoholic beverage or some acid such as lemon juice, which is usually then sweetened and spiced. | [noun] Also everlasting syllabub or solid syllabub: a dessert pudding derived from the drink. | [noun] Something lacking substance; something frothy, insubstantial, or lightweight. WELLCURB (15)

BEACHCOMB (22) [verb] To search along a beach for shells, sea glass, or other items of interest. | [noun] A person who searches beaches for collectible items. CHEMISORB (18) [verb] To bind to a surface through chemisorption, a process where molecules form chemical bonds with a surface rather than being held by weak physical forces. COCKSCOMB (23) [noun] The fleshy red crest of a rooster | [noun] A red cap once worn by court jesters | [noun] A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia) CURRYCOMB (20) DITHYRAMB (20) [noun] A choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus. | [noun] A poem or oration in the same style. FLASHBULB (19) [noun] A glass bulb that made a single bright flash for illumination during a photograph. HONEYCOMB (21) [noun] A structure of hexagonal cells made by bees primarily of wax, to hold their larvae and for storing the honey to feed the larvae and to feed themselves during winter. | [noun] (by extension) Any structure resembling a honeycomb. | [noun] Voids left in concrete resulting from failure of the mortar to effectively fill the spaces among coarse aggregate particles. INTERCLUB (13) LIGHTBULB (17) [noun] An evacuated glass bulb containing a metal filament which is heated by electrical resistance to produce light. | [noun] (by extension) An article that resembles such a bulb and converts electricity to light by any process. | [noun] Used in reference to the sudden arrival of a realization, an inspiration, an idea, or the like. | [noun] An uninvited third person joining a couple's date who prevents or hinders romantic interactions. NIGHTCLUB (17) [noun] A public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music and/or dancing. | [noun] A strip club. | [verb] To visit a nightclub (or nightclubs) for entertainment. SPIDERWEB (17) [noun] The net-like construct of a spider containing sticky strands to catch prey. | [noun] Something that resembles a spider's web in being mesh-like, entrapping, or fragile. | [verb] To connect or cover as if with spiderwebs. SUPERBOMB (17) SUPERCLUB (15)

HEARTTHROB (18) [noun] A heartbeat. | [noun] The object of one’s desires or infatuation; a sweetheart. | [noun] (of a man) A usually handsome, attractive celebrity. UNDERSHRUB (16) [noun] A low-growing shrub.

THINGAMABOB (21) [noun] A thing or person whose actual name is unknown or forgotten.