8-letter words containing a, b, s, o, n
- gambeson — a quilted garment worn under mail.
- gunboats — a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow.
- gynobase — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- hobnails — Plural form of hobnail.
- inboards — Plural form of inboard.
- jacobins — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- jacobsen — Jens Peter [yens pey-tuh r] /yɛns ˈpeɪ tər/ (Show IPA), 1847–85, Danish novelist.
- jakobson — Roman [roh-mahn,, -muh n] /ˈroʊ mɑn,, -mən/ (Show IPA), 1896–1982, U.S. linguist and scholar, born in Russia.
- jawbones — Plural form of jawbone.
- moonbase — (scifi) A base located on a moon.
- nabobess — a female nabob
- nabobism — any very wealthy, influential, or powerful person.
- nanobots — Plural form of nanobot.
- neoblast — any large and undifferentiated stem cell in certain worms, esp planarian worms, involved in regeneration and repair
- nonbanks — Plural form of nonbank.
- nonbasic — of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental: a basic principle; the basic ingredient.
- 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.
- obasanjo — Olusegun (ɒlʊˈseɪɡən). born 1937, Nigerian politician and general; head of the military government (1976–79); president (1999–2007)
- obeisant — a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior; a bow, curtsy, or other similar gesture.
- obsidian — a volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark but transparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture.
- obstante — notwithstanding.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association
- ratisbon — Regensburg.
- sawbones — a surgeon or physician.
- sea-born — born in or of the sea, as naiads.
- seaborne — transported by ship over the sea.
- slobland — an area of muddy or alluvial ground
- snowball — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
- snowbank — a mound of snow, as a snowdrift or snow shoveled from a road or sidewalk.
- sobranje — the national assembly of Bulgaria, consisting of a single chamber of elected deputies.
- stopbank — an embankment to prevent flooding
- subnodal — below the level of a node
- subpoena — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subtaxon — a supplementary piece of identifying information in a plant's or animal's scientific name
- subzonal — located under a zona, esp under the zona of an ovum