8-letter words containing h, o, b
- bosthoon — a boor
- botch-up — A botch-up is the same as a botch.
- botchery — an instance of botched workmanship
- botching — to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
- bothered — worried or concerned
- bothrium — one of two groove-shaped suckers on the scolex of a tapeworm
- bothwell — Earl of, title of James Hepburn. 1535–78, Scottish nobleman; third husband of Mary Queen of Scots. He is generally considered to have instigated the murder of Darnley (1567)
- bothyman — a person who lives in a bothy
- botteghe — the studio of a master artist, in which lesser artists, apprentices, or students learn by participating in the work.
- bouchard — (Louis) Henri [lwee ahn-ree] /lwi ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1875–1960, French sculptor.
- boughpot — a bouquet of flowers or boughs
- boughten — bought at a store and not homemade
- bow hand — the hand that holds the bow in archery or in playing a violin, cello, etc.
- bowditch — Nathaniel1773-1838; U.S. mathematician, astronomer, & navigator
- boxthorn — matrimony vine
- brachio- — indicating a brachium
- brighton — a coastal resort in S England, in Brighton and Hove unitary authority, East Sussex: patronized by the Prince Regent, who had the Royal Pavilion built (1782); seat of the University of Sussex (1966) and the University of Brighton (1992). Pop: 134 293 (2001)
- broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broacher — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broadish — fairly broad
- brochure — A brochure is a magazine or thin book with pictures that gives you information about a product or service.
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- broncho- — indicating or relating to the bronchi
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- brougham — a four-wheeled horse-drawn closed carriage having a raised open driver's seat in front
- brouhaha — A brouhaha is an excited and critical fuss or reaction to something.
- brownish — Something that is brownish is slightly brown in colour.
- brush-on — fit to be applied with a brush: a brush-on paint remover.
- brushoff — an abrupt or rude dismissal, esp. in the phrase give (or get) the brushoff
- bucchero — an Etruscan black ceramic ware, often ornamented with incised geometrical patterns or figures carved in relief.
- buckhorn — horn from a buck, used for knife handles, etc
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- bughouse — a mental hospital or asylum
- bullhorn — A bullhorn is a device for making your voice sound louder in the open air.
- bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
- bunghole — a hole in a cask, barrel, etc, through which liquid can be poured or drained
- bush lot — a tract of timberland
- bush-hog — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- butthole — anus.
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- cabochon — a smooth domed gem, polished but unfaceted
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cash mob — a group of people coordinated to meet and spend money at a local, independent business at a particular time
- cashbook — a book in which all receipts and payments of money are entered
- chad box — (hardware) (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
- chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
- chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
- chapbook — a book of popular ballads, stories, etc, formerly sold by chapmen or pedlars