8-letter words containing n, w, b
- brownson — Orestes Augustus, 1803–76, U.S. writer.
- browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
- bundwall — a concrete or earth wall surrounding a storage tank containing crude oil or its refined product, designed to hold the contents of the tank in the event of a rupture or leak
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- bungwall — an Australian fern, Blechnum indicum, having an edible rhizome
- buy-down — a subsidy for a long-term mortgage offered by a third party, as a builder or developer, to lower interest rates for a buyer in the early years of the loan.
- down-bow — (in bowing on a stringed instrument) a stroke bringing the tip of the bow toward the strings, indicated in scores by the symbol (opposed to up-bow).
- downbeat — the downward stroke of a conductor's arm or baton indicating the first or accented beat of a measure.
- downbent — Bent downward.
- elbowing — Present participle of elbow.
- flyblown — covered with flyblows: flyblown meat.
- gnawable — Capable of being gnawed.
- 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.
- jawboned — Simple past tense and past participle of jawbone.
- jawboner — a person who jawbones
- jawbones — Plural form of jawbone.
- knowable — capable of being known.
- knowbots — Plural form of knowbot.
- longbows — Plural form of longbow.
- mawbound — (of cattle) constipated
- 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.
- newcombe — John (David). born 1944, Australian tennis player; winner of seven Grand Slam singles titles (1967–75), including three at Wimbledon (1967, 1970, 1971)
- newsbeat — beat (def 40b).
- newsboys — Plural form of newsboy.
- nutbrown — dark brown, as many nuts when ripe.
- obwalden — one of the two divisions of the canton of Unterwalden, in central Switzerland. 189 sq. mi. (490 sq. km). Capital: Sarnen.
- open-web — having a web of zigzag or crisscross lacing.
- outblown — Inflated with wind.
- pawnable — able to be pawned
- 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.
- ringwomb — a complication at lambing resulting from failure of the cervix to open
- robstown — a city in S Texas.
- 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.
- sawbones — a surgeon or physician.
- schwaben — German name of Swabia.
- snow job — an attempt to deceive or persuade by using flattery or exaggeration.
- snowball — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
- snowbank — a mound of snow, as a snowdrift or snow shoveled from a road or sidewalk.
- snowbell — a small tree belonging to the genus Styrax, of the storax family, having simple, alternate leaves and showy white bell-shaped flowers.
- snowbelt — a region of annual or heavy snowfall.
- snowbird — junco.
- snowbush — any of several ornamental shrubs having a profusion of white flowers, as Ceanothus cordulatus, of the buckthorn family, native to western North America.
- swing by — Aerospace. a trajectory that uses the gravitational field of one celestial body to alter the course of a spacecraft destined for another body.
- twin bed — a twin-size bed, especially one of a matching pair in a bedroom; single bed.