8-letter words containing o, b, s, c
- obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
- obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- ossobuco — a dish of sliced veal shanks, typically prepared with olive oil, wine, seasonings, tomatoes, etc., and served with rice or other vegetables.
- robotics — the use of computer-controlled robots to perform manual tasks, especially on an assembly line.
- saprobic — saprophyte.
- saucebox — a saucy person.
- scabiosa — any of genus (Scabiosa) of plants of the teasel family, having showy, variously colored flowers in flattened or dome-shaped heads, as the sweet scabiosa (S. atropurpurea), often cultivated as a garden flower
- scabious — covered with or consisting of scabs; scabby.
- scabrous — having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.
- scombrid — any fish of the family Scombridae, comprising the mackerels and tunas.
- scrobble — (of an online music service) to record a listener's musical preferences and recommend similar music that he or she might enjoy
- slob ice — sludge (def 5).
- slotback — an offensive back who lines up about one yard behind the gap in the line between a tackle and an end stationed a distance outside of the tackle.
- slowback — a laggard, idler or lazy person
- sociable — inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
- sociably — inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
- softback — paperback book
- sorbitic — relating to sorbite
- sorocaba — a city in SE Brazil, W of São Paulo.
- sub voce — (used as a direction to a reference) under the specified word. Abbreviation: s.v.
- subblock — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
- subchord — a part of a chord
- subcosta — a longitudinal vein in the anterior portion of the wing of an insect.
- subcover — a set of subsets of a cover of a given set that also is a cover of the set.
- subepoch — an epoch or time period within another epoch or time period
- suboptic — below the eye
- subotica — a city in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, in N Serbia.
- subsonic — noting or pertaining to a speed less than that of sound in air at the same height above sea level.
- subtonic — the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- subtopic — a topic that is included within another topic.
- subvocal — mentally formulated as words, especially without vocalization.
- sunblock — a substance that provides a high degree of protection against sunburn, often preventing most tanning as well as burning, as by obstructing the penetration of ultraviolet rays.
- symbolic — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).