8-letter words containing a, b, s, o
- laborist — A physician who aids labor and delivery but does not provide prenatal care.
- laborous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- lavaboes — Plural form of lavabo.
- marabous — Plural form of marabou.
- moonbase — (scifi) A base located on a moon.
- mossback — Informal. a person holding very antiquated notions; reactionary. a person living in the backwoods; rustic.
- movables — Plural form of movable.
- myoblast — any of the cells derived from the mesoderm in the vertebrate embryo that develop into muscle tissue.
- 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)
- 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.
- obsidian — a volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark but transparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture.
- obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
- obstante — notwithstanding.
- obviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obviate.
- oddballs — Plural form of oddball.
- 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.
- orbitals — Plural form of orbital.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- outboast — to surpass in boasting
- passbook — a bankbook.
- poseable — able to be posed or manipulated into poses
- post-bag — mailbag.
- postbase — a morpheme used as a suffix after a base word
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association
- ratisbon — Regensburg.
- reabsorb — to suck up or drink in (a liquid); soak up: A sponge absorbs water.
- rheobase — the minimum electric current required to excite a given nerve or muscle.
- sabotage — any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute.
- saboteur — a person who commits or practices sabotage.
- sabotier — a wearer of sabots
- sabulous — sandy; gritty.
- sailboat — a boat having sails as its principal means of propulsion.
- salt-box — a box in which salt is kept.
- saprobic — saprophyte.
- saucebox — a saucy person.
- sawbones — a surgeon or physician.
- scabiosa — any of genus (Scabiosa) of plants of the teasel family, having showy, variously colored flowers in flattened or dome-shaped heads, as the sweet scabiosa (S. atropurpurea), often cultivated as a garden flower
- scabious — covered with or consisting of scabs; scabby.