8-letter words containing o, b, s, t
- outburst — a sudden and violent release or outpouring: an outburst of tears.
- pit boss — a casino employee who supervises gambling-table activity.
- post-bag — mailbag.
- post-boy — (formerly) a boy or man who rode post or carried mail.
- postbase — a morpheme used as a suffix after a base word
- postburn — after injury from burns
- ratisbon — Regensburg.
- robotics — the use of computer-controlled robots to perform manual tasks, especially on an assembly line.
- robotism — a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.
- robstown — a city in S Texas.
- robustly — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
- sabotage — any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute.
- saboteur — a person who commits or practices sabotage.
- sabotier — a wearer of sabots
- sailboat — a boat having sails as its principal means of propulsion.
- salt-box — a box in which salt is kept.
- sea boot — a very high waterproof boot worn by fishermen and sailors
- shabuoth — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- shadbolt — Maurice. 1932–2004, New Zealand novelist
- showboat — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
- ski boot — a heavy, thick-soled, ankle-high shoe for skiing, often having padding and extra supporting straps and laces around the ankle, with grooves at the back of the heel for binding to a ski.
- slab top — a top, as to a table, formed from a slab of marble or the like.
- 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.
- slyboots — an engagingly sly or mischievous person.
- snowbelt — a region of annual or heavy snowfall.
- so be it — expressing acceptance of a situation
- sobriety — the state or quality of being sober.
- softback — paperback book
- softball — a form of baseball played on a smaller diamond with a ball that is larger and softer than a baseball.
- sorbitic — relating to sorbite
- sorbitol — a white, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble powder, C 6 H 8 (OH) 6 , occurring in cherries, plums, pears, seaweed, and many berries, obtained by the breakdown of dextrose and used as a sugar substitute for diabetics and in the manufacture of vitamin C, synthetic resins, candy, varnishes, etc.; sorbol.
- 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.
- stamboul — Istanbul
- staybolt — a long rod with threaded ends, used as a stay for a boiler, tank, etc.
- 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.
- stopbank — an embankment to prevent flooding
- 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.
- strobila — the body of a tapeworm exclusive of the head and neck region. Compare scolex.
- strobile — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- strobili — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- stub out — When someone stubs out a cigarette, they put it out by pressing it against something hard.
- stubborn — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- studbook — a genealogical register of a stud or studs; a book giving the pedigree of animals, especially horses.
- sub-note — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- sub-plot — minor, secondary storyline
- subabbot — an abbot who is subordinate to another abbot