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8-letter words containing a, e, r, o, b

  • bresaola — (in Italian cookery) air-dried, salted beef
  • broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
  • broacher — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
  • broadaxe — a type of axe with a large blade
  • broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • brocaded — fabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
  • brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
  • brockage — a defect or fault imposed on a coin during its minting.
  • brodiaea — any of several plants belonging to the genus Brodiaea, of the amaryllis family, native to western North America, having grasslike basal leaves and clusters of usually purplish flowers.
  • bromance — A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men.
  • bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
  • browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
  • cab-over — a truck tractor or other vehicle in which the cab is located over the engine.
  • cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
  • caboceer — (formerly) an African native appointed by his leader to supply European slave traders with slaves
  • cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
  • carborne — travelling by car
  • combater — One who combats.
  • dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
  • deadborn — (dated, rare) Stillborn.
  • dearborn — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit: automobile industry. Pop: 96 670 (2003 est)
  • debonair — A man who is debonair is confident, charming, and well-dressed.
  • diborane — a colorless gas with an unpleasant odor, B 2 H 6 , used in the synthesis of organic boron compounds as a dope to introduce boron and as a polymerization catalyst for ethylene.
  • doberman — Doberman pinscher.
  • drawbore — a hole in a tenon made eccentric with the corresponding holes to the mortise so that the two pieces being joined will be forced tightly together when the pin (drawbore pin) is hammered into place.
  • dropable — (US) Alternative form of droppable.
  • ear lobe — the soft, pendulous lower part of the external ear.
  • earlobes — Plural form of earlobe.
  • eboracum — ancient name of York, England.
  • embrasor — a person who commits or attempts to commit embracery
  • erodable — Capable of being eroded.
  • exorable — Capable of being moved or persuaded.
  • fireboat — a powered vessel equipped to fight fires on boats, docks, shores, etc.
  • forbeare — Archaic spelling of forbear.
  • forbears — Plural form of forbear.
  • fordable — a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
  • forebear — Usually, forebears. ancestors; forefathers.
  • formable — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
  • gaborone — a republic in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 275,000 sq. mi. (712,250 sq. km). Capital: Gaborone.
  • grosbeak — any of various finches having a thick, conical bill.
  • growable — able to be cultivated or grown
  • habanero — an extremely pungent small pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense, used in cookery.
  • harbored — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
  • harborer — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
  • hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
  • hornbeam — any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana (American hornbeam)
  • jamboree — a carousal; any noisy merrymaking.
  • jawboner — a person who jawbones
  • jeroboam — the first king of the Biblical kingdom of the Hebrews in N Palestine.
  • jobshare — an arrangement in which two or more people divide the duties and payment for one position between them, working at different times
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