8-letter words containing s, a
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
- boatsman — boatman.
- bockscar — the U.S. B-29 bomber that dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.
- bogalusa — a city in SE Louisiana.
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bondsman — a person bound by bond to act as surety for another
- bone ash — the residue obtained when bones are burned in air, consisting mainly of calcium phosphate. It is used as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of bone china
- bookcase — A bookcase is a piece of furniture with shelves that you keep books on.
- bootlast — a foot-shaped piece of wood or metal inserted into a boot or shoe to help it keep its shape
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- botsares — Markos [Greek mahr-kaws] /Greek ˈmɑr kɔs/ (Show IPA), Bozzaris, Marco.
- botswana — a republic in southern Africa: established as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland in 1885 as a defence against the Boers; became an independent state within the Commonwealth in 1966; consists mostly of a plateau averaging 1000 m (3300 ft), with the extensive Okavango swamps in the northwest and the Kalahari Desert in the southwest. Languages: English and Tswana. Religion: animist majority. Currency: pula. Capital: Gaborone. Pop: 2 127 825 (2013 est). Area: about 570 000 sq km (220 000 sq miles)
- bovarism — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- bowyangs — a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers
- box seat — a seat in a theatre box
- boyarism — the rule of the boyars
- bozzaris — Marco [mahr-koh] /ˈmɑr koʊ/ (Show IPA), 1788?–1823, Greek patriot.
- brackets — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- brackish — Brackish water is slightly salty and unpleasant.
- bradshaw — a British railway timetable, published annually from 1839 to 1961
- braggers — a person who brags.
- brahmins — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- brainish — impulsive or impetuous
- branches — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- branchus — a son of Apollo, given the power of augury by his father.
- brancusi — Constantin (konstanˈtin). 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms
- brandeis — ˈLouis Demˌbitz (ˈdɛmˌbɪts ) ; demˈbitsˌ) 1856-1941; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1916-39)
- brandise — a trivet
- brandish — If you brandish something, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
- brasiers — a person who makes articles of brass.
- brasilia — the capital of Brazil (since 1960), on the central plateau: the former capital was Rio de Janeiro. Pop: 3 341 000 (2005 est)
- brasilin — brazilin
- brassage — a fee charged for coining money
- brassard — an identifying armband or badge
- brassica — Brassicas are vegetables such as cabbages, broccoli and turnips.
- brassier — made of or covered with brass.
- brassish — like brass; brassy
- brazers' — to unite (metal objects) at high temperatures by applying any of various nonferrous solders.
- breasted — having a breast.
- breathes — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
- bresaola — (in Italian cookery) air-dried, salted beef
- briareus — a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
- brisance — the shattering effect or power of an explosion or explosive
- brisbane — a port in E Australia, the capital of Queensland: founded in 1824 as a penal settlement; vast agricultural hinterland. Pop: 2 189 878 (2013)
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.