8-letter words containing a, b, u, s
- kasavubu — Joseph, 1917?–69, African political leader: first president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (now Zaire) 1960–65.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- labarums — Plural form of labarum.
- laborous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- labrusca — of or derived from the North American fox grape, Vitis labrusca.
- ladybugs — Plural form of ladybug.
- 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
- marabous — Plural form of marabou.
- mudbanks — Plural form of mudbank.
- mudbaths — Plural form of mudbath.
- musk bag — the musk-secreting gland of a male musk deer.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- outboast — to surpass in boasting
- pay-stub — a document attached to or accompanying a paycheck as a record of gross earnings and deductions.
- pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
- pushball — a game played with a large, heavy ball, usually about 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter, which two sides attempt to push to opposite goals.
- quasheba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- reusable — available or convenient for use: 2000 square feet of usable office space.
- rustable — liable to rust
- saboteur — a person who commits or practices sabotage.
- sabulous — sandy; gritty.
- saburral — relating to saburra
- saltbush — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Atriplex, having mostly alternate leaves and clusters of inconspicuous flowers, often growing in saline or alkaline soil.
- salzburg — a city in W Austria: the birthplace of Mozart.
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.
- sandburr — a variety of wild grass
- sap bush — sugarbush (def 2).
- saucebox — a saucy person.
- scabious — covered with or consisting of scabs; scabby.
- scabrous — having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.
- scuzzbag — a despicable or unethical person
- scybalum — hard faeces in the intestine
- shabuoth — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- shadbush — the serviceberry, Amelanchier canadensis.
- sillabub — syllabub.
- slugabed — a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.
- sourball — a round piece of hard candy with a tart or acid fruit flavoring.
- squabash — to crush or demolish (an attack, argument, opponent, etc.)
- squabble — to engage in a petty quarrel.
- stamboul — Istanbul
- staubach — Roger Thomas, born 1942, U.S. football player.
- suasible — able to be persuaded
- sub rosa — confidentially; secretly; privately.
- sub-area — a subsidiary area, field, study, or the like.
- subabbot — an abbot who is subordinate to another abbot
- subacrid — slightly acrid
- subacute — somewhat or moderately acute.
- subadult — having attained full size and strength; grown up; mature: an adult person, animal, or plant.
- subagent — a person whose duties as an agent are delegated to him or her by another agent.
- subareas — a subsidiary area, field, study, or the like.