8-letter words containing o, b, s
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- brossard — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- browless — without eyebrows
- brownish — Something that is brownish is slightly brown in colour.
- brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
- brownson — Orestes Augustus, 1803–76, U.S. writer.
- browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
- brush-on — fit to be applied with a brush: a brush-on paint remover.
- brushoff — an abrupt or rude dismissal, esp. in the phrase give (or get) the brushoff
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- bucolics — a pastoral poem.
- bughouse — a mental hospital or asylum
- bullnose — a rounded exterior angle, as where two walls meet
- bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
- bunuelos — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- burnoose — a long cloak with a hood, worn by Arabs and Moors
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- bus stop — A bus stop is a place on a road where buses stop to let passengers on and off.
- bush lot — a tract of timberland
- bush-hog — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- bust out — escape from somewhere
- busybody — If you refer to someone as a busybody, you are criticizing the way they interfere in other people's affairs.
- busywork — Busywork is work that is intended to keep someone occupied and is not completely necessary.
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous
- byronism — of or relating to Lord Byron.
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabooses — Plural form of caboose.
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
- casebook — A casebook is a written record of the cases dealt with by someone such as a doctor, social worker, or police officer.
- cash mob — a group of people coordinated to meet and spend money at a local, independent business at a particular time
- cashbook — a book in which all receipts and payments of money are entered
- 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.