8-letter words containing a, n, t, b
- semblant — semblance
- sibilant — hissing.
- snakebit — bitten by a snake.
- stabbing — penetrating; piercing: a stabbing pain.
- stabling — a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
- stand by — a staunch supporter or adherent; one who can be relied upon.
- stand-by — a staunch supporter or adherent; one who can be relied upon.
- stopbank — an embankment to prevent flooding
- strabane — a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 38 565 (2003 est). Area: 862 sq km (333 sq miles)
- subagent — a person whose duties as an agent are delegated to him or her by another agent.
- subplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- subtaxon — a supplementary piece of identifying information in a plant's or animal's scientific name
- sun bath — deliberate exposure of the body to the direct rays of the sun or a sunlamp.
- sunbathe — to take a sunbath.
- tab-hang — to eavesdrop
- tabbinet — a fabric resembling poplin, made of silk and wool and usually given a watered finish.
- tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- tablinum — (in an ancient Roman house) a large, open room at the side of the peristyle farthest from the main entrance.
- tacloban — a seaport on NE Leyte, in the central Philippines.
- tailband — a band sewn or glued to the tail of a book. Compare headband (def 3).
- tailbone — the coccyx.
- talabani — Jalal. born 1933, Iraqi politician, a Kurd, president of Iraq (2005–2014)
- tangible — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
- tangibly — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
- tenebrae — the office of matins and lauds for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Holy Week, sung respectively on the afternoon of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of that week, at which the Crucifixion is commemorated by the gradual extinguishment of candles.
- test ban — an agreement by nations producing nuclear weapons to refrain from testing them in the atmosphere.
- thebaine — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 19 H 21 NO 3 , present in opium in small quantities, but having a strychninelike rather than a narcotic effect.
- thinglab — A simulation system written in Smalltalk-80. It solves constraints using value inference. Version: ThingLab II.
- tiberian — of or relating to the emperor Tiberius.
- titubant — staggering
- toboggan — a long, narrow, flat-bottomed sled made of a thin board curved upward and backward at the front, often with low handrails on the sides, used especially in the sport of coasting over snow or ice.
- tri-band — of or relating to mobile telephones that can operate on three GSM frequency bands
- tribunal — a court of justice.
- tube pan — a circular cake pan having a hollow cone-shaped centerpiece: used for baking ring-shaped cakes.
- turbaned — a man's headdress worn chiefly by Muslims in southern Asia, consisting of a long cloth of silk, linen, cotton, etc., wound either about a cap or directly around the head.
- turbinal — turbinate.
- turbofan — a jet engine having a large impeller that takes in air, part of which is used in combustion of fuel, the remainder being mixed with the products of combustion to form a low-velocity exhaust jet.
- turnable — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turnback — a part of a garment or similar item that is folded or turned back
- umbonate — having an umbo or projecting boss.
- unabated — with undiminished force, power, or vigor.
- unbaited — (of a trap) not baited or filled with bait
- unbasted — (of a garment) not basted; not sewn loosely together
- unbathed — not bathed; unwashed
- unbeaten — not struck, pounded, or whipped: unbeaten eggs.
- unstable — not stable; not firm or firmly fixed; unsteady.
- unstably — not stable; not firm or firmly fixed; unsteady.
- urbanist — a person who is a specialist in urban planning.
- urbanite — a resident of a city or urban community.
- urbanity — the quality of being urbane; refined courtesy or politeness; suavity: He was the last word in urbanity.