8-letter words containing a, b, c
- nonbasic — of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental: a basic principle; the basic ingredient.
- nonblack — (of a person) not black.
- nubecula — (astronomy) A nebula; specifically, the Magellanic Clouds.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
- out back — (sometimes initial capital letter) the back country or remote settlements; the bush (usually preceded by the).
- pabouche — a soft shoe
- packable — suitable for packing, especially for travel: readily packable clothes.
- pay back — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- pb cache — Pipeline Burst Cache
- pc board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- pea crab — any of several tiny crabs of the family Pinnotheridae, the female of which lives as a commensal in the shells of bivalve mollusks.
- peccable — liable to sin or error.
- placable — capable of being placated, pacified, or appeased; forgiving.
- playback — the act of reproducing a sound or video recording, especially in order to check a recording that is newly made.
- plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
- publican — Chiefly British. a person who owns or manages a tavern; the keeper of a pub.
- pullback — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- punchbag — A punchbag is a heavy leather bag, filled with a firm material, that hangs on a rope. Punchbags are used by boxers and other sportsmen for exercise and training.
- pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
- put back — postpone
- rabbinic — the Hebrew language as used by rabbis in post-Biblical times.
- raceable — (of a racecourse) fit to be used for racing
- re-brace — to steady or strengthen (something) again
- re-cable — a heavy, strong rope.
- rebranch — (of a branch, tree, evolutionary tree, etc) to branch again
- rib cage — the enclosure formed by the ribs and their connecting bones.
- robocall — a telephone call placed to large numbers of people by a computerized device that automatically dials the telephone numbers and plays a recorded message: Many but not all robocalls are illegal.
- rockable — (of a chair, crib, etc) able to be rocked
- rockabye — used in lullabies or nursery rhymes to encourage a baby to sleep
- rollback — an act or instance of rolling back.
- roorback — a false and more or less damaging report circulated for political effect, usually about a candidate seeking an office.
- row back — If you row back on something you have said or written, you express a different or contrary opinion about it.
- rubrical — reddish; marked with red.
- run back — to carry (a football) toward the opponent's goal, as after receiving a kickoff
- sabbatic — of or pertaining or appropriate to the Sabbath.
- sackable — offence: justifying loss of job
- saprobic — saprophyte.
- saucebox — a saucy person.
- scabbard — a sheath for a sword or the like.
- scabiosa — any of genus (Scabiosa) of plants of the teasel family, having showy, variously colored flowers in flattened or dome-shaped heads, as the sweet scabiosa (S. atropurpurea), often cultivated as a garden flower
- scabious — covered with or consisting of scabs; scabby.
- scabland — rough, barren, volcanic topography with thin soils and little vegetation.
- scabrous — having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.
- scalable — capable of being scaled: the scalable slope of a mountain.
- scalably — capable of being scaled: the scalable slope of a mountain.
- scambler — an unwelcome visitor who takes advantage of the hospitality of others, esp during mealtimes; sponger; opportunist
- scarabee — the scarab beetle or any beetle in the family Scarabaeidae
- scatback — a fast and agile running back, often small in stature, skilled at eluding tacklers.
- schnabel — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1882–1951, Austrian pianist.