8-letter words containing a, b, e, s
- leasable — a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
- lebanese — of or relating to Lebanon or its natives or inhabitants.
- lesbians — Plural form of lesbian.
- liberals — Plural form of liberal.
- libertas — the ancient Roman personification of liberty.
- listable — That can be listed.
- maebashi — a city in the central part of Honshu, in central Japan.
- mashable — Of a consistency suitable for mashing.
- maskable — capable of being masked
- mast bed — a construction in a wooden deck around the opening for a mast.
- megabase — A length of double-stranded DNA containing two million nucleotides, one million on each strand.
- megabits — Plural form of megabit.
- memsahib — (formerly, in India) a term of respect for a married European woman.
- mesh bag — bag made of netting
- mislabel — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
- missable — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- moonbase — (scifi) A base located on a moon.
- movables — Plural form of movable.
- nabobess — a female nabob
- nebraska — a state in the central United States. 77,237 sq. mi. (200,044 sq. km). Capital: Lincoln. Abbreviation: NE (for use with zip code), Nebr., Neb.
- neoblast — any large and undifferentiated stem cell in certain worms, esp planarian worms, involved in regeneration and repair
- nestable — a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- netbacks — Plural form of netback.
- newsbeat — beat (def 40b).
- nose bag — feed bag (def 1).
- nosebags — Plural form of nosebag.
- noseband — that part of a bridle or halter that passes over the animal's nose.
- notables — Plural form of notable.
- obeahism — the custom of or faith in the form of witchcraft known as obeah
- obeisant — a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior; a bow, curtsy, or other similar gesture.
- obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
- obstante — notwithstanding.
- obviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obviate.
- off base — serving as or forming a base: The walls will need a base coat and two finishing coats.
- off-base — located outside the perimeters of a military base: off-base housing for officers.
- parables — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
- parsable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- passable — capable of being passed through, beyond, or over; fit to be traversed, penetrated, crossed, etc., as a road, forest, or stream.
- passerby — a person passing by.
- passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
- payables — debts to be paid
- poseable — able to be posed or manipulated into poses
- postbase — a morpheme used as a suffix after a base word
- prebasal — (in biology) located in front of a base, or in front of a basal part
- quasheba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- rabelais — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), c1490–1553, French satirist and humorist.
- ratables — property that is liable to rates
- ratsbane — rat poison.
- reabsorb — to suck up or drink in (a liquid); soak up: A sponge absorbs water.
- restable — to put (horses, animals, etc) in a stable again