8-letter words containing o, b, s, c
- catboats — Plural form of catboat.
- chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
- chibouks — Plural form of chibouk.
- chubasco — (in Mexico) a hurricane
- cicisbeo — the escort or lover of a married woman, esp in 18th-century Italy
- clobbers — Plural form of clobber.
- closable — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- close-by — nearby; adjacent; neighboring.
- clubmoss — Alternative spelling of club moss.
- cobblers — rubbish; nonsense
- cobhouse — A structure built of cob.
- cohabits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohabit.
- colombes — an industrial and residential suburb of NW Paris. Pop: 83 220 (2006)
- columbus — a city in central Ohio: the state capital. Pop: 728 432 (2003 est)
- combines — Plural form of combine.
- combings — the loose hair, wool, etc, removed by combing, esp that of animals
- combless — without a comb
- combwise — in the manner of a comb
- coos bay — a town in SW Oregon.
- corbeils — Plural form of corbeil.
- corbinas — Plural form of corbina.
- corncobs — Plural form of corncob.
- costable — For which a monetary cost may be assessed.
- cottabus — (in ancient Greece) a game that was popular among young men at drinking parties and which involved throwing wine into a vessel while uttering the name of a beloved
- coulombs — Plural form of coulomb.
- cowbells — Plural form of cowbell.
- cowbirds — Plural form of cowbird.
- coxcombs — Plural form of coxcomb.
- crossbar — A crossbar is a horizontal piece of wood attached to two upright pieces, for example a part of the goal in football.
- crossbow — A crossbow is a weapon consisting of a small, powerful bow that is fixed across a piece of wood, and aimed like a gun.
- crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
- cumbrous — cumbersome
- gobsmack — (transitive, slang) To astonish.
- hogbacks — Plural form of hogback.
- iceboats — Plural form of iceboat.
- iceboxes — Plural form of icebox.
- incubous — (of leaves) overlapping, with the upper part of each leaf covering the base of the leaf above it.
- isobaric — Meteorology. having or showing equal barometric pressure.
- 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.
- jacobsen — Jens Peter [yens pey-tuh r] /yɛns ˈpeɪ tər/ (Show IPA), 1847–85, Danish novelist.
- job case — any of various cases for holding type, especially one of several that accommodate both uppercase and lowercase letters. Compare California job case, case2 (def 8).
- lipscomb — William Nunn [nuhn] /nʌn/ (Show IPA), Jr. 1919–2011, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1976.
- lobstick — lopstick.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- microbus — minibus.
- mossback — Informal. a person holding very antiquated notions; reactionary. a person living in the backwoods; rustic.
- nonbasic — of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental: a basic principle; the basic ingredient.
- obscured — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obscurer — Comparative form of obscure.
- obscures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obscure.