8-letter words containing b, o, h, r
- brush-on — fit to be applied with a brush: a brush-on paint remover.
- brushoff — an abrupt or rude dismissal, esp. in the phrase give (or get) the brushoff
- bucchero — an Etruscan black ceramic ware, often ornamented with incised geometrical patterns or figures carved in relief.
- buckhorn — horn from a buck, used for knife handles, etc
- bullhorn — A bullhorn is a device for making your voice sound louder in the open air.
- chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
- choirboy — A choirboy is a boy who sings in a church choir.
- choriamb — a metrical foot used in classical verse consisting of four syllables, two short ones between two long ones (– ◡ ◡ –)
- dukhobor — Doukhobor.
- grub hoe — a heavy hoe for digging up roots, stumps, etc.
- habanero — an extremely pungent small pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense, used in cookery.
- harbored — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harborer — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harbours — Plural form of harbour.
- hard bop — an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- hardbody — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hardboil — Alternative form of hard-boil.
- hardboot — a horse-racing enthusiast.
- harunobu — Suzuki [soo-zoo-kee] /sʊˈzu ki/ (Show IPA), 1720?–70, Japanese painter and printmaker.
- herblock — Herbert Lawrence (Herblock) 1909–2001, U.S. cartoonist.
- herdbook — A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of cattle.
- hiberno- — denoting Irish or Ireland
- highborn — of high rank by birth.
- highbrow — a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
- hobrecht — Jacob [jey-kuh b;; Dutch yah-kawp] /ˈdʒeɪ kəb;; Dutch ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), Obrecht, Jacob.
- holbrook — Stewart H(all) 1893–1964, U.S. historian and editor.
- homburgs — Plural form of homburg.
- homebird — a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home, or who returns after a period of living away
- homeborn — That which is born in a given place, native, indigenous.
- homebred — bred or raised at home; native; indigenous; domestic.
- homebrew — beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- hornbeam — any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana (American hornbeam)
- hornbill — any large bird of the family Bucerotidae, of the Old World tropics, characterized by a very large bill usually surmounted by a horny protuberance.
- hornbook — a leaf or page containing the alphabet, religious materials, etc., covered with a sheet of transparent horn and fixed in a frame with a handle, formerly used in teaching children to read.
- horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horribly — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horsebox — A vehicle for transporting horses.
- huidobro — Vicente [bee-sen-te] /biˈsɛn tɛ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1948, Chilean poet.
- jobshare — an arrangement in which two or more people divide the duties and payment for one position between them, working at different times
- kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- northumb — Northumberland
- outthrob — to outdo in throbbing
- 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.