8-letter words containing o, n, b
- burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
- burgoyne — John. 1722–92, British general in the War of American Independence who was forced to surrender at Saratoga (1777)
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- burn off — If someone burns off energy, they use it.
- burn out — If a fire burns itself out, it stops burning because there is nothing left to burn.
- 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.
- butanone — a colourless soluble flammable liquid used mainly as a solvent for resins, as a paint remover, and in lacquers, cements, and adhesives. Formula: CH3COC2H5
- buy into — If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
- buy-down — a subsidy for a long-term mortgage offered by a third party, as a builder or developer, to lower interest rates for a buyer in the early years of the loan.
- by jingo — an exclamation of surprise
- byronism — of or relating to Lord Byron.
- cabochon — a smooth domed gem, polished but unfaceted
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
- carbinol — methanol
- carbonic — (of a compound) containing carbon, esp tetravalent carbon
- carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
- carborne — travelling by car
- casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
- cenobite — a member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
- chin job — a cosmetic operation to improve the shape of the chin
- chinbone — the front part of the jawbone that constitutes the chin
- cibation — the act of feeding
- clangbox — a device fitted to a jet-engine to change the direction of thrust
- clayborn — a male given name.
- clonebot — (chat) (Or "clone") A bot meant to replicate itself en masse on a talk network (generally IRC). A bot appears on the network as several agents, and then carries out some task, typically that of flooding another user. Compare ghost.
- cobbling — to pave with cobblestones.
- coin box — the part of a coin-operated machine into which coins are placed
- combined — A combined effort or attack is made by two or more groups of people at the same time.
- combiner — Any of various electronic devices that combine signals, in particular.
- combines — Plural form of combine.
- combings — the loose hair, wool, etc, removed by combing, esp that of animals
- con brio — (to be performed) with liveliness or spirit, as in the phrase allegro con brio
- conglobe — to gather or form into a globe or ball
- contrib. — contributor
- conurban — of or relating to a conurbation
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- corbinas — Plural form of corbina.
- corn cob — Corn cobs are the long rounded parts of the maize or corn plant on which small yellow seeds grow, and which is eaten as a vegetable.
- cornball — Cornball means the same as corny.
- corncobs — Plural form of corncob.
- corncrib — a ventilated building for the storage of unhusked maize
- corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
- cribnote — crib (def 5a).
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- cui bono — for whose benefit? for what purpose?
- dan buoy — a small buoy used as a marker at sea
- deadborn — (dated, rare) Stillborn.