8-letter words containing b, e, o
- bullnose — a rounded exterior angle, as where two walls meet
- buncombe — bunkum
- bunghole — a hole in a cask, barrel, etc, through which liquid can be poured or drained
- bunuelos — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
- burgoyne — John. 1722–92, British general in the War of American Independence who was forced to surrender at Saratoga (1777)
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- burnoose — a long cloak with a hood, worn by Arabs and Moors
- burrowed — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- butanone — a colourless soluble flammable liquid used mainly as a solvent for resins, as a paint remover, and in lacquers, cements, and adhesives. Formula: CH3COC2H5
- butthole — anus.
- bye-blow — by-blow (def 2).
- 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
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- cabooses — Plural form of caboose.
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cabotage — coastal navigation or shipping, esp within the borders of one country
- 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
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
- cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
- carborne — travelling by car
- casebook — A casebook is a written record of the cases dealt with by someone such as a doctor, social worker, or police officer.
- cenobite — a member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
- cerebro- — indicating the brain
- chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
- checkbox — A small box on a computer screen that, when selected by the user, is filled with a check mark to show that the feature described alongside it has been enabled.
- chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
- chinbone — the front part of the jawbone that constitutes the chin
- cicisbeo — the escort or lover of a married woman, esp in 18th-century Italy
- clobbers — Plural form of clobber.
- clonebot — (chat) (Or "clone") A bot meant to replicate itself en masse on a talk network (generally IRC). A bot appears on the network as several agents, and then carries out some task, typically that of flooding another user. Compare ghost.
- closable — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- close-by — nearby; adjacent; neighboring.
- cobblers — rubbish; nonsense
- cobblery — the occupation of shoemaking or shoemending
- cobhouse — A structure built of cob.
- cobwebby — bearing an accumulation of cobwebs.
- codebook — a book containing the means to decipher a code
- codebtor — a fellow debtor
- coembody — to embody jointly
- cohobate — to redistil (a distillate), esp by allowing it to mingle with the remaining matter
- colombes — an industrial and residential suburb of NW Paris. Pop: 83 220 (2006)
- combahee — a river in S South Carolina, flowing SE to the Atlantic Ocean. 40 miles (64 km) long.
- combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combater — One who combats.