8-letter words containing b, s
- apostilb — a unit of luminance equal to one ten thousandth of a lambert.
- arabises — any plant of the genus Arabis, including the rock cresses.
- arbalest — a large medieval crossbow, usually cocked by mechanical means
- arbalist — a powerful medieval crossbow with a steel bow, used to shoot stones, metal balls, arrows, etc.
- arbiters — Plural form of arbiter.
- arborise — To cause to have a tree like appearance.
- arborist — a specialist in the cultivation of trees
- arborous — relating to, or formed by, trees
- arbuscle — a small tree, or a plant halfway between a shrub and a tree
- armbands — Plural form of armband.
- arnsberg — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany.
- arquebus — a portable long-barrelled gun dating from the 15th century: fired by a wheel-lock or matchlock
- asbestic — relating to asbestos
- asbestos — Asbestos is a grey material which does not burn and which has been used as a protection against fire or heat.
- asbestus — Mineralogy. a fibrous mineral, either amphibole or chrysotile, formerly used for making incombustible or fireproof articles.
- ascorbic — Of or pertaining to ascorbic acid or its derivatives.
- ascribed — Simple past tense and past participle of ascribe.
- ascribes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ascribe.
- asheboro — a town in central North Carolina.
- ashgabat — capital of Turkmenistan, in the SC part, near the Iranian border: pop. 411,000
- assemble — When people assemble or when someone assembles them, they come together in a group, usually for a particular purpose such as a meeting.
- assembly — An assembly is a large group of people who meet regularly to make decisions or laws for a particular region or country.
- astilbes — Plural form of astilbe.
- atosiban — (medicine) A medication, that inhibits oxytocin and vasopressin, used to halt premature labour.
- attaboys — Plural form of attaboy.
- aubusson — a town in central France, in the Creuse department: a centre for flat-woven carpets and for tapestries since the 16th century. Pop: 4662 (1999)
- audibles — Plural form of audible.
- augsburg — a city in S Germany, in Bavaria: founded by the Romans in 14 bc; site of the diet that produced the Peace of Augsburg (1555), which ended the struggles between Lutherans and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire and established the principle that each ruler should determine the form of worship in his lands. Pop: 259 217 (2003 est)
- b school — business school.
- b supply — a battery or other source of power for supplying a constant positive voltage to the plate of a vacuum tube.
- b-sample — a urine or blood sample used in doping tests in professional sports to confirm or invalidate the presence of banned substances in the first sample, the A-sample
- b-school — a business school or business college
- baalebos — the master of the house
- baalshem — a person who works miracles by calling upon the name of God, especially one of the German and Polish Jews of the 16th–19th centuries considered to be saintly and to possess magical powers.
- baathism — a socialist party of some Arab countries, especially Iraq and Syria.
- babassus — Plural form of babassu.
- babbitts — Plural form of babbitt.
- babblers — Plural form of babbler.
- babelism — a confusion, particularly a noisy confusion, of speech or ideas
- babiches — Plural form of babiche.
- babirusa — a wild pig, Babyrousa babyrussa, inhabiting marshy forests in Indonesia. It has an almost hairless wrinkled skin and enormous curved canine teeth
- babruysk — a city in SE Belarus, in Europe, SE of Minsk.
- babushka — a headscarf tied under the chin, worn by Russian peasant women
- baby-sit — to act or work as a baby-sitter
- babykins — Fond term of address for a baby, child, or lover.
- babysits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of babysit.
- bacchius — a metrical foot of one short syllable followed by two long ones (◡ – –)
- bacillus — A bacillus is any bacterium that has a long, thin shape.
- back saw — a short saw with a reinforced back.
- backcast — a backward casting of a fishing rod