8-letter words containing b, e
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- buy time — gain time (sense 2) (at , time)
- bx cable — a cable consisting of wires contained in a flexible metal tubing, used chiefly in wiring buildings and in supplying electric power to equipment.
- by heart — If you know something such as a poem by heart, you have learned it so well that you can remember it without having to read it.
- by water — by ship or boat
- by-liner — a writer whose work is accompanied by a by-line
- bye-blow — by-blow (def 2).
- bye-byes — Baby Talk. sleep.
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byre-man — a man who raises or tends cows.
- bystreet — an obscure or secondary street
- cab-over — a truck tractor or other vehicle in which the cab is located over the engine.
- caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
- caballer — a person who cabals
- cabarets — Plural form of cabaret.
- cabbaged — Chiefly British. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
- cabbages — Plural form of cabbage.
- cabbagey — resembling a cabbage
- cabernet — a type of grape
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- cable tv — a television system in which a high antenna and one or more dish antennas receive signals from distant and local stations, electronic satellite relays, etc. and transmit them by direct cable to the receivers of persons subscribing to the system
- cableway — a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers
- 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
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- cabretta — a soft leather obtained from the skins of certain South American or African sheep
- 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
- café bar — A café bar is a café where you can also buy alcoholic drinks.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- calebite — a member of a tribe descended from Caleb.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- callable — (of a security) subject to redemption before maturity
- cambered — Having camber.
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
- cambyses — died ?522 bc, king of Persia (529–?522 bc), who conquered Egypt (525); son of Cyrus the Great
- camp bed — A camp bed is a small bed that you can fold up.
- campbell — Sir Colin, Baron Clyde. 1792–1863, British field marshal who relieved Lucknow for the second time (1857) and commanded in Oudh, suppressing the Indian Mutiny
- canberra — the capital of Australia, in Australian Capital Territory: founded in 1913 as a planned capital. Pop: 345 257 (2008)
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
- carbenes — Plural form of carbene.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- carborne — travelling by car