8-letter words containing o, b
- bellwood — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- bellwort — any plant of the North American liliaceous genus Uvularia, having slender bell-shaped yellow flowers
- belmondo — Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pol). born 1933, French film actor
- belmonte — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), 1893–1962, Spanish matador.
- belmopan — (since 1973) the capital of Belize, about 50 miles inland: founded in 1970. Pop: 10 000 (2005 est)
- belonged — to be in the relation of a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (usually followed by to): He belongs to the Knights of Columbus.
- belonger — a native-born Caribbean person
- belonoid — needlelike; styloid.
- belostok — a city in E Poland.
- belt out — If you belt out a song, you sing or play it very loudly.
- bemoaned — to express distress or grief over; lament: to bemoan one's fate.
- bemoaner — a person who bemoans
- benbrook — a town in N Texas.
- benchtop — a flat surface area
- benidorm — a coastal resort town in W Spain, on the Costa Blanca
- beninois — a native or inhabitant of Benin
- benthoal — relating to deep-sea plants and animals
- bentwood — wood bent in moulds after being heated by steaming, used mainly for furniture
- benzoate — any salt or ester of benzoic acid, containing the group C6H5COO– or the ion C6H5COO–
- bepommel — to beat vigorously
- bepowder — to cover with powder
- berenson — Bernard. 1865–1959, US art historian, born in Lithuania: an authority on art of the Italian Renaissance
- bergamot — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
- bernanos — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1888–1948, French novelist and Roman Catholic pamphleteer, best known for The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)
- berouged — wearing rouge
- besancon — a city in E France, on the Doubs River: university (1422). Pop: 121 012 (2006)
- bescorch — to scorch badly
- beshadow — to darken with shadow
- beshroud — to cover with a shroud
- besmooth — to smooth
- besognio — a young soldier
- besoothe — to soothe
- besotted — If you are besotted with someone or something, you like them so much that you seem foolish or silly.
- besought — beseech
- besouled — having a soul
- bespoken — a past participle of bespeak.
- bespouse — to marry
- best boy — the assistant to the senior electrician or to the key grip in a film crew
- bestowal — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- bestowed — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- bestrode — to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
- betatron — a type of particle accelerator for producing high-energy beams of electrons, having an alternating magnetic field to keep the electrons in a circular orbit of fixed radius and accelerate them by magnetic induction. It produces energies of up to about 300 MeV
- betazole — a substance, C 5 H 9 N 3 , used in medicine to stimulate gastric secretion.
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- beyrouth — Beirut.
- bezonian — a knave or rascal
- bhc code — Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem Code
- biathlon — a contest in which skiers with rifles shoot at four targets along a 20-kilometre (12.5-mile) cross-country course
- bibation — the activity of drinking to excess
- bibliog. — bibliographer