8-letter words containing r, a, b, o
- cornball — Cornball means the same as corny.
- corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
- crabwood — a tropical American meliaceous tree, Carapa guianensis
- crossbar — A crossbar is a horizontal piece of wood attached to two upright pieces, for example a part of the goal in football.
- crowbait — an emaciated, worn-out horse or cow.
- crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- damboard — a draughtboard
- deadborn — (dated, rare) Stillborn.
- dearborn — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit: automobile industry. Pop: 96 670 (2003 est)
- debonair — A man who is debonair is confident, charming, and well-dressed.
- diborane — a colorless gas with an unpleasant odor, B 2 H 6 , used in the synthesis of organic boron compounds as a dope to introduce boron and as a polymerization catalyst for ethylene.
- doberman — Doberman pinscher.
- doorjamb — either of the two sidepieces of a doorframe.
- drawbore — a hole in a tenon made eccentric with the corresponding holes to the mortise so that the two pieces being joined will be forced tightly together when the pin (drawbore pin) is hammered into place.
- dropable — (US) Alternative form of droppable.
- dropback — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- ear lobe — the soft, pendulous lower part of the external ear.
- earlobes — Plural form of earlobe.
- eboracum — ancient name of York, England.
- embrasor — a person who commits or attempts to commit embracery
- erodable — Capable of being eroded.
- exorable — Capable of being moved or persuaded.
- fabiform — Shaped like a bean.
- fairborn — a city in W Ohio, near Dayton.
- faubourg — a suburb or a quarter just outside a French city.
- fibromas — Plural form of fibroma.
- fireboat — a powered vessel equipped to fight fires on boats, docks, shores, etc.
- forbeare — Archaic spelling of forbear.
- forbears — Plural form of forbear.
- fordable — a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
- forebear — Usually, forebears. ancestors; forefathers.
- forkball — a pitch thrown with the ball inserted between the index and middle fingers, causing it to dip sharply near home plate.
- formable — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- formably — formally
- fourball — a match for two pairs in which each player uses his own ball, the better score of each pair being counted at every hole
- frabjous — wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.
- funboard — (surfing) A type of surfboard which is roughly in between a shortboard and a mini-mal. A funboard is a little longer than a shortboard and with wider and somewhat rounded nose and tail, making it easier to paddle but still having most of the performance of a shortboard.
- gabbroic — Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro.
- gabbroid — gabbro-like, esp of a rock in the petrographic clan which contains the gabbro family
- gaboriau — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1835–73, French author of detective stories.
- gaborone — a republic in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 275,000 sq. mi. (712,250 sq. km). Capital: Gaborone.
- gambroon — a type of twilled linen cloth, often used for lining clothes
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- garbanzo — chickpea (def 1).
- garboard — The first range of planks or plates laid on a ship’s bottom next to the keel.
- glabrous — having a surface devoid of hair or pubescence.
- globular — globe-shaped; spherical.