8-letter words containing o, n, e, b
- bed down — If you bed down somewhere, you sleep there for the night, instead of in a bed.
- bedbound — Unable to leave one's bed for some reason.
- bedouins — Plural form of bedouin.
- bedsonia — a former name for the genus of bacteria now called Chlamydia
- bedstone — A large, heavy, flat stone used to support a column or similar member, or as the lower stone of an oil mill.
- begotten — Begotten is the past participle of beget.
- beholden — If you are beholden to someone, you are in debt to them in some way or you feel that you have a duty to them because they have helped you.
- belgrano — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1820, Argentine general.
- belitong — Billiton.
- 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.
- 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–
- berenson — Bernard. 1865–1959, US art historian, born in Lithuania: an authority on art of the Italian Renaissance
- bernanos — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1888–1948, French novelist and Roman Catholic pamphleteer, best known for The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)
- besancon — a city in E France, on the Doubs River: university (1422). Pop: 121 012 (2006)
- besognio — a young soldier
- bespoken — a past participle of bespeak.
- 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
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- bezonian — a knave or rascal
- biconvex — (of a lens) having convex faces on both sides; convexo-convex
- bien hoa — a town in S Vietnam: a former capital of Cambodia. Pop: 520 000 (2005 est)
- big-note — to boast about (oneself)
- bioclean — free from harmful bacteria
- biogenic — produced or originating from a living organism
- blazoned — to set forth conspicuously or publicly; display; proclaim: The pickets blazoned their grievances on placards.
- bloncket — of a blue-grey colour
- blondest — (of a woman or girl) having fair hair and usually fair skin and light eyes.
- blondine — (of a woman) to dye (one's hair) blonde
- bludgeon — To bludgeon someone means to hit them several times with a heavy object.
- bluegown — a bedesman of the king or, in Scotland, a licensed beggar, who traditionally wore a blue gown
- bluenose — a puritanical or prudish person
- boatneck — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
- bobbinet — a netted fabric of hexagonal mesh, made on a lace machine
- bodement — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- bodensee — Constance2 (sense 2)
- bodleian — the principal library of Oxford University: a copyright deposit library
- boehmian — of or relating to Boehmenism.