8-letter words containing r, o, b, s
- rush job — something created quickly, urgently, or without due care
- saboteur — a person who commits or practices sabotage.
- sabotier — a wearer of sabots
- saprobic — saprophyte.
- scabrous — having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.
- scombrid — any fish of the family Scombridae, comprising the mackerels and tunas.
- scrobble — (of an online music service) to record a listener's musical preferences and recommend similar music that he or she might enjoy
- sea-born — born in or of the sea, as naiads.
- seaboard — the line where land and sea meet.
- seaborne — transported by ship over the sea.
- skyboard — a sport that is similar to skydiving but uses a special lightweight board (skyboard) attached to the feet and usually equipped with a parachute.
- skyborne — airborne.
- slobbery — characterized by slobbering.
- snobbery — snobbish character, conduct, trait, or act.
- snobbier — condescending, patronizing, or socially exclusive; snobbish.
- snowbird — junco.
- soapbark — a Chilean tree, Quillaja saponaria, of the rose family, having evergreen leaves and small, white flowers.
- sober up — recover from being drunk
- sobering — not intoxicated or drunk.
- soberize — to make sober.
- sobranje — the national assembly of Bulgaria, consisting of a single chamber of elected deputies.
- sobriety — the state or quality of being sober.
- somberly — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- sombrero — a broad-brimmed hat of straw or felt, usually tall-crowned, worn especially in Spain, Mexico, and the southwestern U.S.
- sombrous — somber.
- songbird — a bird that sings.
- sorbable — able to absorb
- sorbaria — a deciduous Asian shrub
- sorbitic — relating to sorbite
- sorbitol — a white, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble powder, C 6 H 8 (OH) 6 , occurring in cherries, plums, pears, seaweed, and many berries, obtained by the breakdown of dextrose and used as a sugar substitute for diabetics and in the manufacture of vitamin C, synthetic resins, candy, varnishes, etc.; sorbol.
- sorbonne — the seat of the faculties of arts and letters of the University of Paris.
- sorocaba — a city in SE Brazil, W of São Paulo.
- sortable — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- sourball — a round piece of hard candy with a tart or acid fruit flavoring.
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- storable — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- strobila — the body of a tapeworm exclusive of the head and neck region. Compare scolex.
- strobile — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- strobili — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- stubborn — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- sub rosa — confidentially; secretly; privately.
- sub-zero — indicating or recording lower than zero on some scale, especially on the Fahrenheit scale: a week of sub-zero temperatures.
- subchord — a part of a chord
- subcover — a set of subsets of a cover of a given set that also is a cover of the set.
- suberose — of the nature of cork; corklike; corky.
- subfloor — a rough floor beneath a finished floor.
- subgroup — a subordinate group; a division of a group.
- suborder — a category of related families within an order.
- suborned — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subpolar — subantarctic.