8-letter words containing a, r, o
- barytone — having the last syllable unaccented
- baseborn — born of humble parents
- baseword — (linguistics) The word used a base and upon whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- bathrobe — A bathrobe is a loose piece of clothing made of the same material as towels. You wear it before or after you have a bath or a swim.
- bathroom — A bathroom is a room in a house that contains a bath or shower, a washbasin, and sometimes a toilet.
- baudrons — a cat
- bavarois — Bavarian cream.
- beadroll — a list of persons for whom prayers are to be offered
- beadwork — a narrow strip of some material used for edging or ornamentation
- bear off — (of a vessel) to avoid hitting an obstacle, another vessel, etc, by swerving onto a different course
- bear out — If someone or something bears a person out or bears out what that person is saying, they support what that person is saying.
- bearwood — cascara (sense 1)
- beaufort — Henry. ?1374–1447, English cardinal, half-brother of Henry IV; chancellor (1403–04, 1413–17, 1424–26)
- beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
- beauvoir — Siˈmone de (siˈmɔn də ) ; sēm^ōnˈ də) 1908-86; Fr. existentialist writer
- beclamor — clamour excessively
- becoward — to make cowardly, to make into a coward
- bedboard — a piece of wood placed under a mattress to make a bed firmer
- bee road — an area planted with nectar-rich flowers in order to provide a habitat for bees and other pollinating insects
- behavior — People's or animals' behavior is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behavior.
- belabour — If you belabour someone or something, you hit them hard and repeatedly.
- belamour — a beloved person
- belgrano — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1820, Argentine general.
- bemoaner — a person who bemoans
- bergamot — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
- bernanos — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1888–1948, French novelist and Roman Catholic pamphleteer, best known for The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)
- betatron — a type of particle accelerator for producing high-energy beams of electrons, having an alternating magnetic field to keep the electrons in a circular orbit of fixed radius and accelerate them by magnetic induction. It produces energies of up to about 300 MeV
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- big road — a main road or highway.
- binormal — the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve.
- biodrama — a drama based on the life of an actual person or persons.
- biograph — a biographical summary
- biovular — (of twins) from two separate eggs
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
- blazonry — the art or process of describing heraldic arms in proper form
- blowhard — If you describe someone as a blowhard, you mean that they express their opinions very forcefully, and usually in a boastful way.
- blowkart — a simple wheeled vehicle such as a go-kart which has been fitted with a sail and is powered by the wind
- board up — If you board up a door or window, you fix pieces of wood over it so that it is covered up.
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
- boardman — a member of a board
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- boatyard — A boatyard is a place where boats are built and repaired or kept.
- bockscar — the U.S. B-29 bomber that dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.
- body art — physical adornments such as tattoos and piercings
- bodywear — close-fitting clothing, as leotards or bodysuits, made of lightweight, usually stretch fabrics and worn for exercising, dancing, or leisure activity.
- boer war — either of two conflicts between Britain and the South African Boers, the first (1880–1881) when the Boers sought to regain the independence given up for British aid against the Zulus, the second (1899–1902) when the Orange Free State and Transvaal declared war on Britain