9-Letter Words Containing: N,O,R,B

• sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding

• unite with carbon

• turn into carbon, as by burning

• any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries

• An edible pulse, Cicer arietinum, of the family Leguminosae or Fabaceae and subfamilies Faboideae or Papilionoideae, with white or purple-blue flowers and small feathery leaves on both sides of the stem and pods containing two to three peas.

• A seed of this plant; the chickpea.

• Any animal with a thorny back, especially marine animals, such as:

• A woman over a certain age (variously 26 or 30) who has never married, older than a spinster.