8-letter words containing a, r, c, b
- gabbroic — Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro.
- grayback — any of various marine and aquatic animals that are dark gray above and light-colored or white below, as the gray whale, the alewife, certain whitefish, and certain sandpipers.
- greyback — grayback.
- hardback — A book with a solid binding.
- isobaric — Meteorology. having or showing equal barometric pressure.
- labrusca — of or derived from the North American fox grape, Vitis labrusca.
- liberace — (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919–87, U.S. pianist and entertainer.
- low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- lubrical — Obsolete form of lubric.
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- microbar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one millionth of a bar; one dyne per square centimeter.
- microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.
- mobocrat — One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
- muck bar — a rough bar of wrought iron, rolled from blooms of iron extracted from a puddling furnace.
- mud crab — a large edible crab, Scylla serrata, of Australian mangrove regions
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- pc board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- pea crab — any of several tiny crabs of the family Pinnotheridae, the female of which lives as a commensal in the shells of bivalve mollusks.
- rabbinic — the Hebrew language as used by rabbis in post-Biblical times.
- raceable — (of a racecourse) fit to be used for racing
- re-brace — to steady or strengthen (something) again
- re-cable — a heavy, strong rope.
- rebranch — (of a branch, tree, evolutionary tree, etc) to branch again
- rib cage — the enclosure formed by the ribs and their connecting bones.
- robocall — a telephone call placed to large numbers of people by a computerized device that automatically dials the telephone numbers and plays a recorded message: Many but not all robocalls are illegal.
- rockable — (of a chair, crib, etc) able to be rocked
- rockabye — used in lullabies or nursery rhymes to encourage a baby to sleep
- rollback — an act or instance of rolling back.
- roorback — a false and more or less damaging report circulated for political effect, usually about a candidate seeking an office.
- row back — If you row back on something you have said or written, you express a different or contrary opinion about it.
- rubrical — reddish; marked with red.
- run back — to carry (a football) toward the opponent's goal, as after receiving a kickoff
- saprobic — saprophyte.
- scabbard — a sheath for a sword or the like.
- scabrous — having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.
- scambler — an unwelcome visitor who takes advantage of the hospitality of others, esp during mealtimes; sponger; opportunist
- scarabee — the scarab beetle or any beetle in the family Scarabaeidae
- scrabble — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrabbly — insignificantly small or sparse: scrabbly tufts of grass sprouting from the parched lawn.
- scramble — to climb or move quickly using one's hands and feet, as down a rough incline.
- scriabin — Aleksandr Nikolaevich [al-ig-zan-der nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1872–1915, Russian composer and pianist.
- shabrack — the saddlecloth of a cavalry horse used by European light cavalry
- sorocaba — a city in SE Brazil, W of São Paulo.
- subacrid — slightly acrid
- subtract — to withdraw or take away, as a part from a whole.
- subvicar — an assistant to a vicar; a subordinate vicar
- the crab — the constellation Cancer, the fourth sign of the zodiac
- trackbed — the foundation on which railway tracks are laid
- tribadic — lesbian (def 5).