8-letter words containing b, o, n, i, s
- jacobins — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- kinboshi — (sumo) an honour awarded to a rikishi of maegashira rank upon beating a yokozuna.
- lobefins — Plural form of lobefin.
- miniboss — (video games) A minor or incidental boss in a video game.
- nabobism — any very wealthy, influential, or powerful person.
- nobelist — a person who is awarded a Nobel prize.
- nobodies — Plural form of nobody.
- nonbasic — of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental: a basic principle; the basic ingredient.
- nubilous — cloudy or foggy.
- obeisant — a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior; a bow, curtsy, or other similar gesture.
- obsidian — a volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark but transparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture.
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association
- ratisbon — Regensburg.
- robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- robosign — to sign (a document) without reviewing its contents or supporting documents: The bank instructed employees to robosign piles of mortgages.
- shinbone — the tibia.
- sidebone — ossification of the cartilages in the lateral portion of the foot of a horse, resulting in lameness.
- snobbier — condescending, patronizing, or socially exclusive; snobbish.
- snobbily — in a snobby manner
- snobbish — of, relating to, or characteristic of a snob: snobbish ideas about rank.
- snobbism — condescending, patronizing, or socially exclusive; snobbish.
- snobling — a little snob
- snowbird — junco.
- sobering — not intoxicated or drunk.
- songbird — a bird that sings.
- steinbok — steenbok.
- subsonic — noting or pertaining to a speed less than that of sound in air at the same height above sea level.
- subtonic — the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- symbiont — an organism living in a state of symbiosis.
- unbishop — to remove (someone) from the position of bishop
- wishbone — a forked bone, formed by the fusion of the two clavicles, in front of the breastbone in most birds; furcula.