8-letter words containing a, b, s
- brossard — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bud vase — a relatively tall, slender vase, usually footed, for holding a single, stemmed flower, usually a rosebud
- budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
- bullbars — large protective metal grille on the front of some vehicles, esp four-wheel-drive vehicles
- burramys — the very rare mountain pigmy possum, Burramys parvus, of Australia. It is about the size of a rat and restricted in habitat to very high altitudes, mainly Mt Hotham, Victoria. Until 1966 it was known only as a fossil
- bus lane — A bus lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by buses.
- bus pass — a prepaid card allowing one to use buses
- bush tea — a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia, of southern Africa
- bushbaby — any agile nocturnal arboreal prosimian primate of the genera Galago and Euoticus, occurring in Africa south of the Sahara: family Lorisidae (lorises). They have large eyes and ears and a long tail
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- bushwalk — to hike through bushland
- bust ass — Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort: She was determined to make straight A's or bust.
- busulfan — a drug used to treat cancer
- butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
- buzkashi — a game played in Afghanistan, in which opposing teams of horsemen strive for possession of the headless carcass of a goat
- buzz saw — a power-operated circular saw
- buzz-saw — a power-operated circular saw, so named because of the noise it makes.
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- cabalism — a mystical philosophical doctrine based on the doctrines of the cabala
- cabalist — a member of a cabal.
- cabarets — Plural form of cabaret.
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- cabbages — Plural form of cabbage.
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- cabooses — Plural form of caboose.
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- cabstand — a taxi rank
- calabash — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- cambists — Plural form of cambist.
- cambiums — Plural form of cambium.
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
- cambyses — died ?522 bc, king of Persia (529–?522 bc), who conquered Egypt (525); son of Cyrus the Great
- cannabis — Cannabis is the hemp plant when it is used as a drug.
- carabids — Plural form of carabid.
- carbarns — Plural form of carbarn.
- carbenes — Plural form of carbene.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- caribees — See under Antilles.
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.