8-letter words containing n, a, b, o
- bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
- bohemian — Bohemian means belonging or relating to Bohemia or its people.
- bolivian — Bolivian means belonging or relating to Bolivia or its people.
- boltonia — any North American plant of the genus Boltonia, having daisy-like flowers with white, violet, or pinkish rays: family Compositae (composites)
- bona dea — an ancient Roman goddess of chastity and fertility.
- bonafide — made, done, presented, etc., in good faith; without deception or fraud: a bona fide statement of intent to sell.
- bonamano — a tip or gratuity
- bonampak — ancient Mayan site in Chiapas, S Mexico: discovered in 1946.
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bondable — able to be bonded, fastened, or secured
- bondager — someone who performs bondservice; a bondman
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bondmaid — an unmarried female serf or slave
- bondsman — a person bound by bond to act as surety for another
- bone ash — the residue obtained when bones are burned in air, consisting mainly of calcium phosphate. It is used as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of bone china
- bone wax — a mixture of wax, oil, and carbolic acid applied to the cut surface of a bone to prevent bleeding
- bonehead — a stupid or obstinate person
- bonemeal — the product of dried and ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer or in stock feeds
- boneyard — a cemetery; graveyard
- bongrace — a brim or shade on the front of women's bonnets or hats, intended to protect the face from the sun
- boniface — Saint, original name Wynfrith. ?680–?755 ad, Anglo-Saxon missionary: archbishop of Mainz (746–755). Feast day: June 5
- bonytail — a fish, Gila elegans, found in the Colorado River, having flaring fins and a thin caudal peduncle.
- bookland — an area of common land given to a private owner
- boongary — a tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus lumholtzi, of northeastern Queensland
- borazine — a colorless liquid, B 3 N 3 H 6 , that hydrolyzes with water to form boron hydrides. It is the inorganic analogue of benzene with similar physical properties.
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- botanica — a shop that sells herbs, charms, and other items associated with alternative medicine or magic
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- botanize — to collect or study plants
- bothyman — a person who lives in a bothy
- botswana — a republic in southern Africa: established as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland in 1885 as a defence against the Boers; became an independent state within the Commonwealth in 1966; consists mostly of a plateau averaging 1000 m (3300 ft), with the extensive Okavango swamps in the northwest and the Kalahari Desert in the southwest. Languages: English and Tswana. Religion: animist majority. Currency: pula. Capital: Gaborone. Pop: 2 127 825 (2013 est). Area: about 570 000 sq km (220 000 sq miles)
- bouffant — A bouffant hairstyle is one in which your hair is high and full.
- boundary — The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
- bow hand — the hand that holds the bow in archery or in playing a violin, cello, etc.
- bowyangs — a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers
- box nail — a nail having a long shank, smooth or barbed, with a sharp point and a flat head.
- boy band — A boy band is a band consisting of young men who sing pop music and dance. Boy bands are especially popular with teenage girls.
- braconid — any member of the Braconidae, a family of parasitoid wasps
- brainbow — the result of a process by which the individual neurons of a brain can be mapped with fluorescent proteins under a light source
- brainbox — the skull
- brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
- branford — a town in S Connecticut.
- brentano — Clemens (Maria) (ˈkleːmənz). 1778–1842, German romantic poet and compiler of fairy stories and folk songs esp (with Achim von Arnim) the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1805–08)
- bromance — A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men.
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- browband — the strap of a horse's bridle that goes across the forehead
- bryozoan — any aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Bryozoa, forming colonies of polyps each having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore)
- bucovina — Bukovina
- bukovina — a region of E central Europe, part of the NE Carpathians: the north was seized by the Soviet Union (1940) and later became part of Ukraine; the south remained Romanian
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.