8-letter words containing s, b
- bog moss — peat moss.
- bog rush — a blackish tufted cyperaceous plant, Schoenus nigricans, growing on boggy ground
- bogalusa — a city in SE Louisiana.
- bogeyism — the recognition of or belief in the existence of ghosts or demons
- bogomips — (unit) (From "bogus", "MIPS") The timing unit of the Linux kernel. A BogoMips is an unscientific measurement of processor speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop.
- bogosity — /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the microLenat. Also, the potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter.
- boiserie — finely-sculptured wood panelling or wainscoating, particularly in 18th-century French architecture
- boksburg — city in central Gauteng province, South Africa: pop. 120,000
- boldness — not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or rebuff; courageous and daring: a bold hero.
- bollocks — Bollocks is used by some people to express disagreement, dislike, or annoyance.
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- boltless — without any bolts
- bombesin — a hormone partly responsible for regulating appetite
- bombsite — an area where the buildings have been destroyed by bombs
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bondless — without bonds, unrestrained
- bondsman — a person bound by bond to act as surety for another
- bondsmen — a person who by bond becomes 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
- bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
- boneless — without bones; specif., with the bones removed
- bongoist — a player of the bongos
- boniness — the condition of being bony
- bonspiel — a curling match
- bontemps — Arna Wendell [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–73, U.S. author.
- boobyish — stupid or silly
- boobyism — the quality of being boobyish
- boodlers — the lot, pack, or crowd: Send the whole boodle back to the factory.
- bookcase — A bookcase is a piece of furniture with shelves that you keep books on.
- bookless — having no books
- bookrest — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- bookshop — A bookshop is a shop where books are sold.
- boonless — useless or unhelpful
- boothose — a protective stocking or boot liner fashionable in the 17th century
- bootlast — a foot-shaped piece of wood or metal inserted into a boot or shoe to help it keep its shape
- bootless — of little or no use; vain; fruitless
- boresome — boring or uninteresting
- borghese — a noble Italian family whose members were influential in Italian art and politics from the 16th to the 19th century
- bosporus — strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara: c. 20 mi (32 km) long
- bosseyed — cross-eyed.
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- bosthoon — a boor
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- botryose — Mineralogy. botryoidal.
- botrytis — any of a group of fungi of the genus Botrytis, several of which cause plant diseases
- 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)
- botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
- boudeuse — a sofa or settee, usually upholstered, having two seats with a common backrest between them.