8-letter words containing b, s, c
- seatback — the back support of a seat in an aircraft, motor vehicle, etc.
- set back — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- set-back — Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
- setbacks — a check to progress; a reverse or defeat: The new law was a setback.
- shabrack — the saddlecloth of a cavalry horse used by European light cavalry
- sibyllic — of, resembling, or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic; oracular.
- sick bag — a bag provided on an aircraft or ship as a receptacle for vomit
- sick bay — a hospital or dispensary, especially aboard ship.
- sick-bay — a hospital or dispensary, especially aboard ship.
- sit back — relax, rest
- skewback — a sloping surface against which the end of an arch rests.
- slob ice — sludge (def 5).
- slotback — an offensive back who lines up about one yard behind the gap in the line between a tackle and an end stationed a distance outside of the tackle.
- slowback — a laggard, idler or lazy person
- snapback — a sudden rebound or recovery.
- sociable — inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
- sociably — inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
- softback — paperback book
- sorbitic — relating to sorbite
- sorocaba — a city in SE Brazil, W of São Paulo.
- spacelab — a manned laboratory in space, developed by the European Space Agency, carried aboard an orbiting space shuttle.
- staubach — Roger Thomas, born 1942, U.S. football player.
- stick by — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- sub voce — (used as a direction to a reference) under the specified word. Abbreviation: s.v.
- sub-city — a large or important town.
- subacrid — slightly acrid
- subacute — somewhat or moderately acute.
- subblock — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
- subcaste — Sociology. an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups. any rigid system of social distinctions.
- subcause — a factor less important than a cause
- subchief — a chief below the main chief
- subchord — a part of a chord
- subclaim — a claim that is part of a larger claim
- subclass — a primary division of a class.
- subclerk — a clerk who is subordinate or assistant to another clerk
- subcosta — a longitudinal vein in the anterior portion of the wing of an insect.
- subcover — a set of subsets of a cover of a given set that also is a cover of the set.
- subcrust — a secondary crust below a main crust
- subcutis — the deeper layer of the dermis, containing mostly fat and connective tissue.
- subepoch — an epoch or time period within another epoch or time period
- suberect — not quite erect
- subjects — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subniche — a subdivision of a niche
- suboptic — below the eye
- subotica — a city in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, in N Serbia.
- subpubic — beneath the pubic bone
- subscale — a scale within a scale
- subsonic — noting or pertaining to a speed less than that of sound in air at the same height above sea level.
- subspace — a smaller space within a main area that has been divided or subdivided: The jewelry shop occupies a subspace in the hotel's lobby.
- subtonic — the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.