8-letter words containing o, b, e, s
- showable — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- sidebone — ossification of the cartilages in the lateral portion of the foot of a horse, resulting in lameness.
- skobelev — former name of Fergana.
- skyborne — airborne.
- slob ice — sludge (def 5).
- slobbery — characterized by slobbering.
- sloebush — a bush on which sloes grow
- smokable — suitable for being smoked.
- smokebox — a chamber in a steam engine or boiler where smoke is collected
- snobbery — snobbish character, conduct, trait, or act.
- snobbier — condescending, patronizing, or socially exclusive; snobbish.
- 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.
- so be it — expressing acceptance of a situation
- sober up — recover from being drunk
- sobering — not intoxicated or drunk.
- soberize — to make sober.
- sobieski — John, John III (def 2).
- sobranje — the national assembly of Bulgaria, consisting of a single chamber of elected deputies.
- sobriety — the state or quality of being sober.
- sociable — inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
- soembawa — Dutch name of Sumbawa.
- sofa bed — a sofa that can be converted into a bed, either by folding out the seat or by lowering the back to be flush with the seat.
- sofa-bed — a sofa that can be converted into a bed, either by folding out the seat or by lowering the back to be flush with the seat.
- solvable — capable of being solved, as a problem.
- somberly — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- sombrero — a broad-brimmed hat of straw or felt, usually tall-crowned, worn especially in Spain, Mexico, and the southwestern U.S.
- somebody — a person of some note or importance.
- sorbable — able to absorb
- sorbonne — the seat of the faculties of arts and letters of the University of Paris.
- sortable — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- soupbone — a bone used for making soup or broth.
- sowbelly — fat salt pork taken from the belly of a hog.
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- spekboom — a South African shrub
- steelbow — the farming stock lent to a tenant by a landlord that must be returned undiminished at the end of the tenancy
- steenbok — a small antelope, Raphicerus campestris, of grassy areas of eastern and southern Africa.
- steinbok — steenbok.
- storable — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- stowable — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
- strobile — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- sub voce — (used as a direction to a reference) under the specified word. Abbreviation: s.v.
- sub-note — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- sub-zero — indicating or recording lower than zero on some scale, especially on the Fahrenheit scale: a week of sub-zero temperatures.
- subbuteo — a football game played on a table, with toy players affixed to rounded bases which are flicked with the fingers
- subcover — a set of subsets of a cover of a given set that also is a cover of the set.
- subdepot — a depot within a larger depot
- subepoch — an epoch or time period within another epoch or time period
- suberose — of the nature of cork; corklike; corky.
- suborder — a category of related families within an order.