8-letter words containing o, s
- 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.
- c-scroll — an ornamental motif in the shape of a C , used chiefly on furniture.
- 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.
- caducous — (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
- caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- caissons — Plural form of caisson.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- calicoes — Plural form of calico.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- callisto — a nymph who attracted the love of Zeus and was changed into a bear by Hera. Zeus then set her in the sky as the constellation Ursa Major
- callosal — of or relating to the corpus callosum.
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- calvados — a department of N France in the Basse-Normandie region. Capital: Caen. Pop: 659 893 (2003 est). Area: 5693 sq km (2198 sq miles)
- calypsos — Plural form of calypso.
- calzones — Plural form of calzone.
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen