8-letter words containing a, b, e, s
- bleakish — quite pale
- blue gas — water gas.
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bone ash — the residue obtained when bones are burned in air, consisting mainly of calcium phosphate. It is used as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of bone china
- bookcase — A bookcase is a piece of furniture with shelves that you keep books on.
- botsares — Markos [Greek mahr-kaws] /Greek ˈmɑr kɔs/ (Show IPA), Bozzaris, Marco.
- box seat — a seat in a theatre box
- brackets — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- braggers — a person who brags.
- branches — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- brandeis — ˈLouis Demˌbitz (ˈdɛmˌbɪts ) ; demˈbitsˌ) 1856-1941; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1916-39)
- brandise — a trivet
- brasiers — a person who makes articles of brass.
- brassage — a fee charged for coining money
- brassier — made of or covered with brass.
- brazers' — to unite (metal objects) at high temperatures by applying any of various nonferrous solders.
- breasted — having a breast.
- breathes — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
- bresaola — (in Italian cookery) air-dried, salted beef
- briareus — a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans
- brisance — the shattering effect or power of an explosion or explosive
- brisbane — a port in E Australia, the capital of Queensland: founded in 1824 as a penal settlement; vast agricultural hinterland. Pop: 2 189 878 (2013)
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- bud vase — a relatively tall, slender vase, usually footed, for holding a single, stemmed flower, usually a rosebud
- budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
- bus lane — A bus lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by buses.
- bush tea — a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia, of southern Africa
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- cabarets — Plural form of cabaret.
- cabbages — Plural form of cabbage.
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- cabooses — Plural form of caboose.
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
- cambyses — died ?522 bc, king of Persia (529–?522 bc), who conquered Egypt (525); son of Cyrus the Great
- carbenes — Plural form of carbene.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- caribees — See under Antilles.
- cascabel — a knoblike protrusion on the rear part of the breech of an obsolete muzzle-loading cannon
- case bay — (in a roof or floor) the section between two principals.
- casebook — A casebook is a written record of the cases dealt with by someone such as a doctor, social worker, or police officer.