8-letter words containing b, h, o
- job shop — an agency or plant that supplies technical personnel or performs a specific function in a manufacturing process, usually on short-term temporary contracts.
- job-hunt — to seek employment; look for a job.
- jobshare — an arrangement in which two or more people divide the duties and payment for one position between them, working at different times
- jochebed — the mother of Aaron and Moses. Ex. 6:20.
- johnboat — a light, square-ended, flat-bottomed skiff, used in shallow water.
- kiboshed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibosh.
- kinboshi — (sumo) an honour awarded to a rikishi of maegashira rank upon beating a yokozuna.
- knobhead — a stupid person
- kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
- kombucha — Also called kombucha mushroom. a live culture of multiple species of yeast and bacteria, grown to make a mildly alcoholic fermented beverage.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- lambchop — A chop or rib of lamb.
- lunchbox — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- matchbox — a small box, usually of cardboard, for matches.
- mmabatho — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa, consisting of several landlocked areas, along the NE part: granted independence in 1977 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 16,988 sq. mi. (44,000 sq. km). Capital: Mmabatho.
- monobath — a developer and fixer combined in the same solution.
- morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
- mothball — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- mouthbow — Musical bow.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- neophobe — One who dislikes new or novel things.
- northumb — Northumberland
- oathable — having the ability to take an oath or to be believed while on oath
- obeahism — the custom of or faith in the form of witchcraft known as obeah
- outbitch — to bitch more than or better than
- outblush — to blush more than or to exceed in rosy colour
- outthrob — to outdo in throbbing
- pabouche — a soft shoe
- phleboid — pertaining to or resembling a vein.
- pooh bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
- pooh-bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
- prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- rabbitoh — (formerly) an itinerant seller of rabbits for eating
- rathbone — Basil, 1892–1967, English actor, born in South Africa.
- rebought — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- rehoboam — the successor of Solomon and the first king of Judah, reigned 922?–915? b.c. I Kings 11:43.
- rehoboth — a town in central Israel, SE of Tel Aviv.
- rhabdoid — a rod-shaped structure found in the cells of some plants and animals
- rheobase — the minimum electric current required to excite a given nerve or muscle.
- rhomboid — an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal.
- robohelp — (tool) A Microsoft Windows Help authoring tool from Blue Sky Software. Used with Microsoft Word to create Help files for inclusion in a Windows application or for stand alone use.
- rosebush — a shrub that bears roses.
- roxburgh — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- rush job — something created quickly, urgently, or without due care
- semihobo — a person looking almost like a hobo
- shabuoth — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- shadbolt — Maurice. 1932–2004, New Zealand novelist
- shinbone — the tibia.
- shoe box — cardboard box in which shoes are sold
- shoebill — a large, African, storklike bird, Balaeniceps rex, having a broad, flattened bill shaped somewhat like a shoe.