8-letter words containing a, b, e, o
- basecoat — a first coat of a surfacing material, as paint.
- baseload — The minimum load on a power station over a standard period.
- baseword — (linguistics) The word used a base and upon whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
- bastogne — a town in SE Belgium: of strategic importance to Allied defences during the Battle of the Bulge; besieged by the Germans during the winter of 1944–45. Pop: 14 070 (2004 est)
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- bathrobe — A bathrobe is a loose piece of clothing made of the same material as towels. You wear it before or after you have a bath or a swim.
- bayonets — Plural form of bayonet.
- baziotes — William, 1912–63, U.S. painter.
- be along — to come or arrive
- be toast — If someone is toast, you mean that they are certain to be defeated or destroyed.
- beachboy — a male lifeguard on a beach
- beaconed — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- beadroll — a list of persons for whom prayers are to be offered
- beadwork — a narrow strip of some material used for edging or ornamentation
- bean pot — a heavy, covered crockery or metal pot, suitable for the slow cooking of beans, stews, etc.
- beanpole — If you call someone a beanpole, you are criticizing them because you think that they are extremely tall and thin.
- beantown — Boston
- bear off — (of a vessel) to avoid hitting an obstacle, another vessel, etc, by swerving onto a different course
- bear out — If someone or something bears a person out or bears out what that person is saying, they support what that person is saying.
- bearwood — cascara (sense 1)
- beat off — to drive back; repel
- beat out — If you beat out sounds on a drum or similar instrument, you make the sounds by hitting the instrument.
- beat-out — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- beatdown — A physical beating or assault.
- beaucoup — a large amount, an abundance
- beaufort — Henry. ?1374–1447, English cardinal, half-brother of Henry IV; chancellor (1403–04, 1413–17, 1424–26)
- beaumont — a city in SE Texas. Pop: 112 434 (2003 est)
- beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
- beauvoir — Siˈmone de (siˈmɔn də ) ; sēm^ōnˈ də) 1908-86; Fr. existentialist writer
- beclamor — clamour excessively
- becoward — to make cowardly, to make into a coward
- bed load — the sand, gravel, boulders, or other debris transported by rolling or sliding along the bottom of a stream.
- bedboard — a piece of wood placed under a mattress to make a bed firmer
- bedsonia — a former name for the genus of bacteria now called Chlamydia
- bee road — an area planted with nectar-rich flowers in order to provide a habitat for bees and other pollinating insects
- behavior — People's or animals' behavior is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behavior.
- belabour — If you belabour someone or something, you hit them hard and repeatedly.
- belamour — a beloved person
- belgrano — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1820, Argentine general.
- belmopan — (since 1973) the capital of Belize, about 50 miles inland: founded in 1970. Pop: 10 000 (2005 est)
- bemoaned — to express distress or grief over; lament: to bemoan one's fate.
- bemoaner — a person who bemoans
- benthoal — relating to deep-sea plants and animals
- benzoate — any salt or ester of benzoic acid, containing the group C6H5COO– or the ion C6H5COO–
- bergamot — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
- bernanos — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1888–1948, French novelist and Roman Catholic pamphleteer, best known for The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)
- besancon — a city in E France, on the Doubs River: university (1422). Pop: 121 012 (2006)
- beshadow — to darken with shadow
- bestowal — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- betatron — a type of particle accelerator for producing high-energy beams of electrons, having an alternating magnetic field to keep the electrons in a circular orbit of fixed radius and accelerate them by magnetic induction. It produces energies of up to about 300 MeV