8-letter words containing s, b
- possibly — perhaps; maybe: It may possibly rain today.
- post-bag — mailbag.
- post-boy — (formerly) a boy or man who rode post or carried mail.
- postbase — a morpheme used as a suffix after a base word
- postburn — after injury from burns
- prebasal — (in biology) located in front of a base, or in front of a basal part
- prebless — to bless beforehand, esp to bless a couple before they marry
- prepubis — (in some animals) a bone situated in front of the pubis
- proverbs — a word that can substitute for a verb or verb phrase, as do in They never attend board meetings, but we do regularly.
- publics' — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
- pushball — a game played with a large, heavy ball, usually about 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter, which two sides attempt to push to opposite goals.
- quasheba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quibbles — Plural form of quibble.
- rabelais — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), c1490–1553, French satirist and humorist.
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association
- ratables — property that is liable to rates
- ratisbon — Regensburg.
- ratsbane — rat poison.
- reabsorb — to suck up or drink in (a liquid); soak up: A sponge absorbs water.
- red beds — sequences of red sedimentary rocks, usually sandstones or shales, coloured by the oxidization of the iron in them
- resemble — to be like or similar to.
- restable — to put (horses, animals, etc) in a stable again
- resubmit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- reusable — available or convenient for use: 2000 square feet of usable office space.
- rheobase — the minimum electric current required to excite a given nerve or muscle.
- rib site — (networking) (By analogy with backbone site) A host with an on-demand high-speed link to a backbone site that serves as a regional distribution point for lots of third-party traffic in electronic mail and Usenet news. Compare leaf site.
- ribgrass — English plantain.
- ribosome — a tiny, somewhat mitten-shaped organelle occurring in great numbers in the cell cytoplasm either freely, in small clusters, or attached to the outer surfaces of endoplasmic reticula, and functioning as the site of protein manufacture.
- risibles — a person's sense of humour
- robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- robosign — to sign (a document) without reviewing its contents or supporting documents: The bank instructed employees to robosign piles of mortgages.
- robotics — the use of computer-controlled robots to perform manual tasks, especially on an assembly line.
- robotism — a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.
- robstown — a city in S Texas.
- robustly — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- rom bios — Basic Input/Output System
- rose box — a perforated metal box used as a strainer; strum.
- rosebery — Archibald Philip Primrose [prim-rohz] /ˈprɪmˌroʊz/ (Show IPA), 5th Earl of, 1847–1929, British statesman and author: prime minister 1894–95.
- rosebowl — a decorative bowl for displaying roses
- roseburg — a city in W Oregon.
- rosebush — a shrub that bears roses.
- rubbishy — full of rubbish: a rubbishy cellar.
- rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
- rush job — something created quickly, urgently, or without due care
- rustable — liable to rust
- rustbelt — the heavily industrial area of the northeastern U.S. containing the older industries and factories.
- sabadell — a city in NE Spain, N of Barcelona.
- sabatier — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1854–1941, French chemist: Nobel prize 1912.
- sabatini — Rafael [raf-ee-uh l] /ˈræf i əl/ (Show IPA), 1875–1950, English novelist and short-story writer, born in Italy.