8-letter words containing o, b, s
- bondsmen — a person who by bond becomes surety for another.
- bone ash — the residue obtained when bones are burned in air, consisting mainly of calcium phosphate. It is used as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of bone china
- bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
- boneless — without bones; specif., with the bones removed
- bongoist — a player of the bongos
- boniness — the condition of being bony
- bonspiel — a curling match
- bontemps — Arna Wendell [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–73, U.S. author.
- boobyish — stupid or silly
- boobyism — the quality of being boobyish
- boodlers — the lot, pack, or crowd: Send the whole boodle back to the factory.
- bookcase — A bookcase is a piece of furniture with shelves that you keep books on.
- bookless — having no books
- bookrest — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- bookshop — A bookshop is a shop where books are sold.
- boonless — useless or unhelpful
- boothose — a protective stocking or boot liner fashionable in the 17th century
- bootlast — a foot-shaped piece of wood or metal inserted into a boot or shoe to help it keep its shape
- bootless — of little or no use; vain; fruitless
- boresome — boring or uninteresting
- borghese — a noble Italian family whose members were influential in Italian art and politics from the 16th to the 19th century
- bosporus — strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara: c. 20 mi (32 km) long
- bosseyed — cross-eyed.
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- bosthoon — a boor
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- botryose — Mineralogy. botryoidal.
- botrytis — any of a group of fungi of the genus Botrytis, several of which cause plant diseases
- botsares — Markos [Greek mahr-kaws] /Greek ˈmɑr kɔs/ (Show IPA), Bozzaris, Marco.
- botswana — a republic in southern Africa: established as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland in 1885 as a defence against the Boers; became an independent state within the Commonwealth in 1966; consists mostly of a plateau averaging 1000 m (3300 ft), with the extensive Okavango swamps in the northwest and the Kalahari Desert in the southwest. Languages: English and Tswana. Religion: animist majority. Currency: pula. Capital: Gaborone. Pop: 2 127 825 (2013 est). Area: about 570 000 sq km (220 000 sq miles)
- botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
- boudeuse — a sofa or settee, usually upholstered, having two seats with a common backrest between them.
- bourbons — a member of a French royal family that ruled in France 1589–1792, Spain 1700–1931, and Naples 1735–1806, 1815–60.
- boursier — a foundation level scholar
- bousouki — bouzouki.
- bovarism — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- bow legs — a condition in which the legs curve outwards like a bow between the ankle and the thigh
- bowsprit — a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel, esp a sailing vessel, used to carry the headstay as far forward as possible
- bowyangs — a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers
- box seat — a seat in a theatre box
- box sill — a sill for a building frame, composed of a plate resting on the basement wall and a joist or header at the outer edge of the plate, as well as a soleplate for the studs resting either directly on the joists or on the rough flooring.
- box step — a basic step in ballroom dancing, in which the feet move in the form of a rectangle
- boxiness — the quality of being boxy
- boyarism — the rule of the boyars
- bozzaris — Marco [mahr-koh] /ˈmɑr koʊ/ (Show IPA), 1788?–1823, Greek patriot.
- bresaola — (in Italian cookery) air-dried, salted beef
- bristols — a woman's breasts
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- broadish — fairly broad
- broekies — underpants