8-letter words containing i, b, c
- finbacks — Plural form of finback.
- fireback — a piece, lining the rear of a fireplace, usually of cast iron.
- forcible — done or effected by force: forcible entry into a house.
- forcibly — done or effected by force: forcible entry into a house.
- gabbroic — Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro.
- gambogic — of or derived from gamboge
- giveback — (in union negotiations) a reduction in employee wages or benefits conceded by a union in exchange for other benefits or in recognition of depressed economic conditions: Givebacks have not slowed the number of shutdowns.
- glib ice — ice that is particularly smooth and slippery
- gw-basic — (language) An early version of MS-BASIC.
- 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.
- hit back — retaliate
- ibm pcjr — (computer) (IBM PC Junior) A floppy disk-based home computer with an Intel 8088 CPU and a chiclet keyboard, released in November 1983. The PCjr could be expanded to have two floppy drives and 640 kilobytes of RAM using sidecars. Some even had a mouse and could run drawing programs with popup menus.
- ice beer — beer brewed at subfreezing temperatures.
- ice blue — a very pale blue color.
- ice cube — a small cube of ice, as one made in a special tray in the freezing compartment of a refrigerator or by an ice-making machine.
- ice-blue — Ice-blue is a very pale blue colour.
- icebergs — Plural form of iceberg.
- iceblink — a yellowish luminosity near the horizon or on the underside of a cloud, caused by the reflection of light from sea ice.
- iceblock — An ice block, a block of ice.
- iceboats — Plural form of iceboat.
- icebound — held fast or hemmed in by ice; frozen in: an icebound ship.
- iceboxes — Plural form of icebox.
- icy blue — of a very pale blue colour
- imbecile — Informal. a dunce; blockhead; dolt: Don't stand there like an imbecile. Open the door!.
- incomber — Archaic form of encumber.
- incubate — to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- incubous — (of leaves) overlapping, with the upper part of each leaf covering the base of the leaf above it.
- incumber — encumber.
- 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.
- jacobian — Alternative capitalization of Jacobian.
- jacobina — a female given name.
- 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.
- jacobite — a partisan or adherent of James II of England after his overthrow (1688), or of the Stuarts.
- jig back — an inclined cable tramway with two cars that are connected in such a way that as one goes up the other comes down.
- kiabooca — padouk.
- kickable — Capable, or deserving of being kicked.
- kickback — a percentage of income given to a person in a position of power or influence as payment for having made the income possible: usually considered improper or unethical.
- kickball — a children's game, similar to baseball, in which a large inflated ball, as a soccer ball, is kicked instead of being batted.
- la ceiba — a seaport in N Honduras.
- laidback — Alternative spelling of laid-back.
- libeccio — a strong westerly or southwesterly wind blowing onto the W coast of Corsica
- liberace — (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919–87, U.S. pianist and entertainer.
- lie back — sb: recline
- liebchen — A person who is very dear to another (often used as a term of endearment).
- liftback — hatchback.
- linkback — (Internet) Any of various mechanisms for notifying the owner of a webpage when it is linked to from another document.
- lion cub — baby lion
- lipscomb — William Nunn [nuhn] /nʌn/ (Show IPA), Jr. 1919–2011, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1976.