8-letter words containing b, s, c
- cowbells — Plural form of cowbell.
- cowbirds — Plural form of cowbird.
- coxcombs — Plural form of coxcomb.
- crabbish — Somewhat sour or cross; crabby.
- crabwise — (of motion) sideways; like a crab
- cribbers — Plural form of cribber.
- crossbar — A crossbar is a horizontal piece of wood attached to two upright pieces, for example a part of the goal in football.
- crossbow — A crossbow is a weapon consisting of a small, powerful bow that is fixed across a piece of wood, and aimed like a gun.
- crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
- crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
- cubicles — A small partitioned-off area of a room, for example one containing a bed in a dwelling or one containing a desk in an office.
- cubistic — a style of painting and sculpture developed in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by an emphasis on formal structure, the reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents, and the organization of the planes of a represented object independently of representational requirements.
- cumbrous — cumbersome
- curbless — with no curb or restraint
- curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
- cutbacks — Plural form of cutback.
- cybersex — Cybersex involves using the Internet for sexual purposes, especially by exchanging sexual messages with another person.
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- decibels — a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave, equal to 20 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the pressure produced by the sound wave to a reference pressure, usually 0.0002 microbar.
- describe — If you describe a person, object, event, or situation, you say what they are like or what happened.
- diabasic — Pertaining to, or containing, diabase.
- disbench — to remove (a barrister or judge) from the membership of the governing body of one of the Inns of Court
- embraces — Plural form of embrace.
- fastback — a form of back for an automobile body consisting of a single, unbroken convex curve from the top to the rear bumper.
- faxbacks — Plural form of faxback.
- finbacks — Plural form of finback.
- gemsbuck — gemsbok.
- gobsmack — (transitive, slang) To astonish.
- gw-basic — (language) An early version of MS-BASIC.
- hackbuss — Alternative form of hagbut.
- hibachis — Plural form of hibachi.
- hibiscus — Also called China rose. a woody plant, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, of the mallow family, having large, showy flowers: the state flower of Hawaii.
- hogbacks — Plural form of hogback.
- icebergs — Plural form of iceberg.
- iceboats — Plural form of iceboat.
- iceboxes — Plural form of icebox.
- incubous — (of leaves) overlapping, with the upper part of each leaf covering the base of the leaf above it.
- inscribe — to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
- isobaric — Meteorology. having or showing equal barometric pressure.
- 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.
- jacobsen — Jens Peter [yens pey-tuh r] /yɛns ˈpeɪ tər/ (Show IPA), 1847–85, Danish novelist.
- job case — any of various cases for holding type, especially one of several that accommodate both uppercase and lowercase letters. Compare California job case, case2 (def 8).
- jumbucks — Plural form of jumbuck.
- labrusca — of or derived from the North American fox grape, Vitis labrusca.
- laybacks — Plural form of layback.
- lipscomb — William Nunn [nuhn] /nʌn/ (Show IPA), Jr. 1919–2011, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1976.
- lobstick — lopstick.
- lubitsch — Ernst [urnst;; German ernst] /ɜrnst;; German ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1892–1947, German film director and producer, in the U.S. after 1922.
- lucky sb — You can use lucky in expressions such as 'Lucky you' and 'Lucky devil' when you are slightly jealous of someone else's good luck or success, or surprised at it.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.