8-letter words containing b, w, r
- interweb — (often lowercase) the Internet: used jocularly when pretending to be or referring to an inexperienced Internet user, or when expressing a disdain for certain Internet content: vague recollections presented as fact on the Interweb.
- jawboner — a person who jawbones
- job work — miscellaneous printing work, as distinguished from books, periodicals, etc.
- lobworms — Plural form of lobworm.
- low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- lowbrows — Plural form of lowbrow.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- monobrow — a pair of eyebrows that appear to be connected because of some extra hair growing in the space between them: He had very bushy eyebrows, almost a unibrow.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- new bern — a city in E North Carolina.
- newborns — A recently born child or animal.
- newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- nutbrown — dark brown, as many nuts when ripe.
- outbrawl — to defeat in a brawl
- overblew — Simple past form of overblow.
- overblow — to give excessive importance or value to: to overblow one's own writing.
- overbrow — (poetic, transitive) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association
- rawboned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
- rawlbolt — a proprietary anchor bolt for fixing into masonry etc
- rebellow — to re-echo loudly
- reborrow — to borrow (something, esp money) again
- ringwomb — a complication at lambing resulting from failure of the cervix to open
- robstown — a city in S Texas.
- rosebowl — a decorative bowl for displaying roses
- row back — If you row back on something you have said or written, you express a different or contrary opinion about it.
- rub down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rub-down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rumbelow — a nonsense word used in the refrain of certain sea shanties
- snowbird — junco.
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- subdwarf — a star which is smaller than a dwarf star
- subworld — in literary theory, a world 'created' by a character within a text world or fiction, for example through a flashback or reminiscence on the part of the character; the subworld is subordinate to but not part of the text world
- sway bar — stabilizer bar.
- swear by — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- tubework — tubes collectively
- tubeworm — any of various marine worms that produce and inhabit a tube, some being adapted to a hydrothermal vent environment.
- twinborn — born at the same birth.
- unburrow — to come out of or force out of a burrow
- walburga — Walpurgis.
- war baby — a child born or conceived in wartime.
- war bond — debt securities issued by a government for the purpose of financing military operations during times of war
- warblers — Plural form of warbler.
- warbling — to sing or whistle with trills, quavers, or melodic embellishments: The canary warbled most of the day.
- wardrobe — a stock of clothes or costumes, as of a person or of a theatrical company.
- warhable — able to fight in war
- wartburg — a castle in E Germany, in Thuringia, near Eisenach: Luther translated the New Testament here 1521–22.
- waterbed — a bed having a liquid-filled rubber or plastic mattress in a rigid, often heated, waterproof frame, and providing a surface that conforms to the sleeper's body in any position.
- waterboy — Alternative spelling of water boy.
- waterbus — Alternative spelling of water bus.