8-letter words containing b, e, o
- somberly — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- sombrero — a broad-brimmed hat of straw or felt, usually tall-crowned, worn especially in Spain, Mexico, and the southwestern U.S.
- somebody — a person of some note or importance.
- sorbable — able to absorb
- sorbonne — the seat of the faculties of arts and letters of the University of Paris.
- sortable — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- soupbone — a bone used for making soup or broth.
- sowbelly — fat salt pork taken from the belly of a hog.
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- spekboom — a South African shrub
- steelbow — the farming stock lent to a tenant by a landlord that must be returned undiminished at the end of the tenancy
- steenbok — a small antelope, Raphicerus campestris, of grassy areas of eastern and southern Africa.
- steinbok — steenbok.
- storable — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- stowable — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
- strobile — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- sub voce — (used as a direction to a reference) under the specified word. Abbreviation: s.v.
- sub-note — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- sub-zero — indicating or recording lower than zero on some scale, especially on the Fahrenheit scale: a week of sub-zero temperatures.
- subbuteo — a football game played on a table, with toy players affixed to rounded bases which are flicked with the fingers
- subcover — a set of subsets of a cover of a given set that also is a cover of the set.
- subdepot — a depot within a larger depot
- subepoch — an epoch or time period within another epoch or time period
- suberose — of the nature of cork; corklike; corky.
- suborder — a category of related families within an order.
- suborned — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subovate — almost egg-shaped
- suboxide — the oxide of an element that contains the smallest proportion of oxygen.
- subpoena — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- sweatbox — a sauna or other enclosure for sweating.
- symbiote — an organism living in a state of symbiosis.
- tabletop — a surface forming or suggesting the top of a table.
- taborite — (in the 15th century) a member of the militant body of Hussites maintaining a strict literal interpretation of the Scriptures.
- tabouleh — a salad of fine-ground bulgur, parsley, tomatoes, green onions, mint, olive oil, and lemon juice.
- tabouret — a low seat without back or arms, for one person; stool.
- tailbone — the coccyx.
- teaboard — a tea tray
- tenebrio — a type of small mealworm
- text box — computing: space for typing text
- textbook — a book used by students as a standard work for a particular branch of study.
- the bomb — a hydrogen or atomic bomb considered as the ultimate destructive weapon
- the book — the Bible
- the boot — dismissal from employment; the sack
- the tomb — death
- theobald — Lewis, 1688–1744, English author.
- theobold — Lewis, 1688–1744, English author.
- throbbed — to beat with increased force or rapidity, as the heart under the influence of emotion or excitement; palpitate.
- throbber — to beat with increased force or rapidity, as the heart under the influence of emotion or excitement; palpitate.
- tjirebon — a seaport on N Java, in S central Indonesia.
- to blame — If someone is to blame for something bad that has happened, they are responsible for causing it.