8-letter words containing s, b
- sabbatic — of or pertaining or appropriate to the Sabbath.
- sabotage — any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute.
- saboteur — a person who commits or practices sabotage.
- sabotier — a wearer of sabots
- sabulous — sandy; gritty.
- saburral — relating to saburra
- sackable — offence: justifying loss of job
- saibling — the European char, Salvelinus alpinus, introduced into North America
- sailboat — a boat having sails as its principal means of propulsion.
- saleable — subject to or suitable for sale; readily sold: The books were sent back by the store in salable condition.
- salt-box — a box in which salt is kept.
- saltbush — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Atriplex, having mostly alternate leaves and clusters of inconspicuous flowers, often growing in saline or alkaline soil.
- salvable — fit for or capable of being saved or salvaged.
- salzburg — a city in W Austria: the birthplace of Mozart.
- san blas — Gulf of, a gulf of the Caribbean on the N coast of Panama.
- sand bar — a bar of sand formed in a river or sea by the action of tides or currents.
- sand dab — any of several flatfishes used for food, especially of the genus Citharichthys, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America.
- sandable — the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.
- sandbank — a large mass of sand, as on a shoal or hillside.
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.
- sandburr — a variety of wild grass
- sap bush — sugarbush (def 2).
- saprobic — saprophyte.
- saraband — a slow, stately Spanish dance, especially of the 17th and 18th centuries, in triple meter, derived from a vigorous castanet dance.
- sash bar — muntin (def 1).
- satiable — capable of being satiated.
- saucebox — a saucy person.
- saveable — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
- sawblade — the blade of a saw
- sawbones — a surgeon or physician.
- sb awe32 — (multimedia, music, hardware) A standard SB16 MultiCD sound card with the EMU8000 "Advanced WavEffect" music synthesizer integrated circuit. The card includes all the standard SB16 features as well as the Advanced Signal Processor and multiple interfaces supporting Creative, Mitsumi and Sony CD-ROM drives. The EMU8000 comes integrated with 1MB of General MIDI samples and 512kB of DRAM for additional sample downloading. It can address up to 28 MB of external DRAM. The SB AWE32 supports General MIDI, Roland GS, and Sound Canvas MT-32 emulation.
- scabbard — a sheath for a sword or the like.
- scabiosa — any of genus (Scabiosa) of plants of the teasel family, having showy, variously colored flowers in flattened or dome-shaped heads, as the sweet scabiosa (S. atropurpurea), often cultivated as a garden flower
- scabious — covered with or consisting of scabs; scabby.
- scabland — rough, barren, volcanic topography with thin soils and little vegetation.
- scabrous — having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.
- scalable — capable of being scaled: the scalable slope of a mountain.
- scalably — capable of being scaled: the scalable slope of a mountain.
- scambler — an unwelcome visitor who takes advantage of the hospitality of others, esp during mealtimes; sponger; opportunist
- scarabee — the scarab beetle or any beetle in the family Scarabaeidae
- scatback — a fast and agile running back, often small in stature, skilled at eluding tacklers.
- schnabel — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1882–1951, Austrian pianist.
- schubert — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1797–1828, Austrian composer.
- schwaben — German name of Swabia.
- scombrid — any fish of the family Scombridae, comprising the mackerels and tunas.
- scrabble — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrabbly — insignificantly small or sparse: scrabbly tufts of grass sprouting from the parched lawn.
- scramble — to climb or move quickly using one's hands and feet, as down a rough incline.
- scriabin — Aleksandr Nikolaevich [al-ig-zan-der nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1872–1915, Russian composer and pianist.
- scribble — to tear apart (wool fibers) in the first stages of carding.