8-letter words containing a, b, s, o
- bioplasm — living matter; protoplasm
- bioplast — a very small unit of bioplasm
- 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.
- 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
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
- boatsman — boatman.
- bockscar — the U.S. B-29 bomber that dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.
- bogalusa — a city in SE Louisiana.
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bondsman — a person bound by bond to act as surety for another
- 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.
- bootlast — a foot-shaped piece of wood or metal inserted into a boot or shoe to help it keep its shape
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- botsares — Markos [Greek mahr-kaws] /Greek ˈmɑr kɔs/ (Show IPA), Bozzaris, Marco.
- botswana — a republic in southern Africa: established as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland in 1885 as a defence against the Boers; became an independent state within the Commonwealth in 1966; consists mostly of a plateau averaging 1000 m (3300 ft), with the extensive Okavango swamps in the northwest and the Kalahari Desert in the southwest. Languages: English and Tswana. Religion: animist majority. Currency: pula. Capital: Gaborone. Pop: 2 127 825 (2013 est). Area: about 570 000 sq km (220 000 sq miles)
- bovarism — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- bowyangs — a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers
- box seat — a seat in a theatre box
- boyarism — the rule of the boyars
- bozzaris — Marco [mahr-koh] /ˈmɑr koʊ/ (Show IPA), 1788?–1823, Greek patriot.
- bresaola — (in Italian cookery) air-dried, salted beef
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- broadish — fairly broad
- brossard — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabooses — Plural form of caboose.
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
- casebook — A casebook is a written record of the cases dealt with by someone such as a doctor, social worker, or police officer.
- cash mob — a group of people coordinated to meet and spend money at a local, independent business at a particular time
- cashbook — a book in which all receipts and payments of money are entered
- catboats — Plural form of catboat.
- chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
- chubasco — (in Mexico) a hurricane