8-letter words containing a, b, o
- 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
- betazole — a substance, C 5 H 9 N 3 , used in medicine to stimulate gastric secretion.
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- bezonian — a knave or rascal
- biathlon — a contest in which skiers with rifles shoot at four targets along a 20-kilometre (12.5-mile) cross-country course
- bibation — the activity of drinking to excess
- bien hoa — a town in S Vietnam: a former capital of Cambodia. Pop: 520 000 (2005 est)
- bifocals — Bifocals are glasses with lenses made in two halves. The top part is for looking at things some distance away, and the bottom part is for reading and looking at things that are close.
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- big road — a main road or highway.
- bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
- bignonia — any tropical American bignoniaceous climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia (or Doxantha), cultivated for their trumpet-shaped yellow or reddish flowers
- bilobate — divided into or having two lobes
- bimanous — (of man and the higher primates) having two hands distinct in form and function from the feet
- bination — celebration of Mass twice on the same day by the same priest.
- binomial — a mathematical expression consisting of two terms, such as 3x + 2y
- binormal — the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve.
- bioassay — a method of determining the concentration, activity, or effect of a change to substance by testing its effect on a living organism and comparing this with the activity of an agreed standard
- biocidal — destructive of living organisms
- bioclean — free from harmful bacteria
- biodrama — a drama based on the life of an actual person or persons.
- biograph — a biographical summary
- bioplasm — living matter; protoplasm
- bioplast — a very small unit of bioplasm
- biotical — pertaining to life.
- biovular — (of twins) from two separate eggs
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
- bismanol — a highly ferromagnetic alloy of bismuth and manganese, having a high degree of magnetic force.
- black op — Often, black ops. a secret mission or campaign carried out by a military, governmental, or other organization, typically one in which the organization conceals or denies its involvement: Some national intelligence agencies use black ops to undermine enemy governments. The company even resorted to an industrial black op to steal secrets from its competitor.
- blackcod — sablefish.
- blackout — A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
- blacktop — Blacktop is a hard black substance which is used as a surface for roads.
- blastoff — Blastoff is the moment when a rocket leaves the ground and rises into the air to begin a journey into space.
- blastoid — a type of extinct echinoderm, which can be found in fossil form in regions of North America
- blastoma — a tumour composed of embryonic tissue that has not yet developed a specialized function
- blazoned — to set forth conspicuously or publicly; display; proclaim: The pickets blazoned their grievances on placards.
- blazonry — the art or process of describing heraldic arms in proper form
- bloating — Bloating is the swelling of a body or part of a body, usually because it has a lot of gas or liquid in it.
- blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.