8-letter words containing a, b, o, r
- marlboro — a city in E Massachusetts.
- microbar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one millionth of a bar; one dyne per square centimeter.
- microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.
- mobocrat — One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
- mopboard — baseboard (def 1).
- morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
- narbonne — a city in S France: an important port in Roman times.
- niobrara — a river flowing E from E Wyoming through Nebraska to the Missouri. 431 miles (692 km) long.
- nonbrand — not produced by a well-known company or brand
- nonlabor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- nonurban — Not urban.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- obdurate — unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
- oberland — a mountain region in central Switzerland, mostly in S Bern canton.
- obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- oblatory — Of or pertaining to oblation; oblational.
- obtainer — One who obtains.
- obturate — to stop up; close.
- obviator — a person who obviates
- offboard — not carried, installed, etc., within a vehicle or electronic device: offboard software to track and control the robot's movement.
- on board — provided, occurring, etc., on a vehicle: among the ship's many onboard services.
- on-board — provided, occurring, etc., on a vehicle: among the ship's many onboard services.
- open bar — a bar at a reception that serves drinks whose cost has been borne by the host, an admission charge, a sponsor, etc.: Before the banquet there will be an open bar from 5 to 7 p.m.
- operable — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
- orbitale — Craniometry, Cephalometry. the lowermost point on the lower margin of the left orbit, located instrumentally on the skull or by palpation on the head.
- orbitals — Plural form of orbital.
- orbitary — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- oribatid — a mite of the family Oribatoidea
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- outboard — located on the exterior of a hull or aircraft.
- outbrave — to stand up to; face defiantly: to outbrave charges of misconduct.
- outbrawl — to defeat in a brawl
- outbreak — a sudden breaking out or occurrence; eruption: the outbreak of war.
- overbake — (transitive) To bake for too long.
- overbank — to have the balance staff oscillate so greatly that the fork of the lever fails to engage, rendering the escapement inoperative.
- overbear — to bear over or down by weight or force: With his superior strength he easily overbore his opponent in the fight.
- overbeat — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- panbroil — to cook in a pan with little fat or moisture
- paperboy — a youth or man who sells newspapers on the street or delivers them to homes; newsboy.
- parabola — a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane. Equation: y 2 = 2 px or x 2 = 2 py.
- parabole — a simile
- 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)
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- perborax — sodium perborate.
- portable — portability
- portably — capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
- pourable — able to be poured
- preboard — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- probable — likely to occur or prove true: He foresaw a probable business loss. He is the probable writer of the article.
- probably — in all likelihood; very likely: He will probably attend.