8-letter words containing b, o, y
- broguery — the use of a brogue or accent
- broidery — a piece of embroidery
- bronzify — to make into bronze
- broodily — in a broody manner
- brooklyn — a borough of New York City, on the SW end of Long Island. Pop: 2 465 326 (2000)
- bryology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of bryophytes
- bryozoan — any aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Bryozoa, forming colonies of polyps each having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore)
- bulawayo — a city in SW Zimbabwe founded (1893) on the site of the kraal of Lobengula, the last Matabele king; the country's main industrial centre. Pop: 693 000 (2005 est)
- bullocky — the driver of a team of bullocks
- bullyboy — a ruffian or tough, esp a hired one
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- burgoyne — John. 1722–92, British general in the War of American Independence who was forced to surrender at Saratoga (1777)
- busybody — If you refer to someone as a busybody, you are criticizing the way they interfere in other people's affairs.
- busywork — Busywork is work that is intended to keep someone occupied and is not completely necessary.
- butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous
- buy boat — a boat sent out by a dealer to purchase the catches of fishing vessels.
- buy into — If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
- buy-down — a subsidy for a long-term mortgage offered by a third party, as a builder or developer, to lower interest rates for a buyer in the early years of the loan.
- by jingo — an exclamation of surprise
- bye-blow — by-blow (def 2).
- byronism — of or relating to Lord Byron.
- calbayog — a city in the Philippines, on NW Samar.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
- carboxyl — the group COOH, characteristic of organic acids, including fatty acids and amino acids
- choirboy — A choirboy is a boy who sings in a church choir.
- clayborn — a male given name.
- close-by — nearby; adjacent; neighboring.
- cobblery — the occupation of shoemaking or shoemending
- cobwebby — bearing an accumulation of cobwebs.
- coembody — to embody jointly
- coos bay — a town in SW Oregon.
- copy boy — an employee who runs errands in a newspaper office
- copyable — able to be copied
- copybook — A copybook action is done perfectly, according to established rules.
- corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
- cowberry — a creeping ericaceous evergreen shrub, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, of N temperate and arctic regions, with pink or red flowers and edible slightly acid berries
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- cymbalom — cimbalom
- dan buoy — a small buoy used as a marker at sea
- daybooks — Plural form of daybook.
- disobeys — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disobey.
- dobrynin — Anatoly F(edorovich) [an-uh-toh-lee fyaw-duh-roh-vich;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˌæn əˈtoʊ li ˌfyɔ dəˈroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1919–2010, Russian diplomat.
- dogberry — the berry or fruit of any of various plants, as the European dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, the chokeberry, Aronia arbutifolia, or the mountain ash, Sorbus americana.
- dogsbody — a menial worker; drudge.
- doughboy — Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
- embryoid — Of, pertaining to, or resembling an embryo.
- embryol. — embryology