8-letter words containing a, b, s, r
- hatbrush — a soft brush for hats
- hauberks — Plural form of hauberk.
- hebraism — an expression or construction distinctive of the Hebrew language.
- hebraist — a person versed in the Hebrew language.
- inboards — Plural form of inboard.
- isobaric — Meteorology. having or showing equal barometric pressure.
- jaybirds — Plural form of jaybird.
- jobshare — an arrangement in which two or more people divide the duties and payment for one position between them, working at different times
- karlsbad — German name of Karlovy Vary.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- labarums — Plural form of labarum.
- laborers — Plural form of laborer.
- laborism — a political theory favoring the dominance of labor in the economic and political life of a country.
- laborist — A physician who aids labor and delivery but does not provide prenatal care.
- laborous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- labrusca — of or derived from the North American fox grape, Vitis labrusca.
- lamberts — Plural form of lambert.
- lansberg — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 29 miles (46 km) in diameter.
- lansbury — George. 1859–1940, British Labour politician, who led the Labour Party in opposition (1931–35). A committed pacifist, he resigned over the party's reaction to Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia
- liberals — Plural form of liberal.
- libertas — the ancient Roman personification of liberty.
- marabous — Plural form of marabou.
- marimbas — Plural form of marimba.
- minibars — Plural form of minibar.
- misbrand — to brand or label erroneously.
- nebraska — a state in the central United States. 77,237 sq. mi. (200,044 sq. km). Capital: Lincoln. Abbreviation: NE (for use with zip code), Nebr., Neb.
- orbitals — Plural form of orbital.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- parables — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
- parsable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- passerby — a person passing by.
- prebasal — (in biology) located in front of a base, or in front of a basal part
- rabelais — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), c1490–1553, French satirist and humorist.
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association
- ratables — property that is liable to rates
- ratisbon — Regensburg.
- ratsbane — rat poison.
- reabsorb — to suck up or drink in (a liquid); soak up: A sponge absorbs water.
- restable — to put (horses, animals, etc) in a stable again
- reusable — available or convenient for use: 2000 square feet of usable office space.
- rheobase — the minimum electric current required to excite a given nerve or muscle.
- ribgrass — English plantain.
- rustable — liable to rust
- sabatier — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1854–1941, French chemist: Nobel prize 1912.
- saboteur — a person who commits or practices sabotage.
- sabotier — a wearer of sabots
- saburral — relating to saburra
- salzburg — a city in W Austria: the birthplace of Mozart.
- sand bar — a bar of sand formed in a river or sea by the action of tides or currents.
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.