8-letter words containing s, b
- bathmism — a hypothetical growth-force, once thought to animate living beings
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- bathtubs — Plural form of bathtub.
- bathurst — a town in SE Australia, in E New South Wales: scene of a gold rush in 1851. Pop: 27 036 (2001)
- batinism — a secret movement in Islam, often associated with Ismaʿili Shiʿism.
- batlings — Plural form of batling.
- batswing — in the form of the wing of a bat
- battlers — Plural form of battler.
- baudrons — a cat
- bavarois — Bavarian cream.
- bay salt — salt derived by evaporating seawater in the sun.
- bayesian — (of a theory) presupposing known a priori probabilities which may be subjectively assessed and which can be revised in the light of experience in accordance with Bayes' theorem. A hypothesis is thus confirmed by an experimental observation which is likely given the hypothesis and unlikely without it
- bayonets — Plural form of bayonet.
- baysmelt — topsmelt.
- baziotes — William, 1912–63, U.S. painter.
- bazookas — Plural form of bazooka.
- be arsed — to be willing, inclined, or prepared (esp in the phrase can't be arsed)
- be toast — If someone is toast, you mean that they are certain to be defeated or destroyed.
- be-jesus — Informal. dickens; devil; deuce: The conglomerate plans to take that tiny company and expand the bejesus out of it.
- beadings — Plural form of beading.
- beadsman — a person who prays for another's soul, esp one paid or fed for doing so
- beadsmen — Plural form of beadsman.
- beakfish — Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae.
- beam sea — a sea striking the vessel at right angles to its keel.
- beamless — Not having a beam.
- beanbags — Plural form of beanbag.
- bearcats — Plural form of bearcat.
- bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
- bearskin — A bearskin is a tall fur hat that is worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions.
- beastial — Misspelling of bestial.
- beasties — Plural form of beastie.
- beastily — in the manner of a beast
- beatings — Plural form of beating.
- beatless — without a beat, not beating
- beatniks — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the Beat Generation.
- beauties — the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).
- beauvais — a market town in N France, 64 km (40 miles) northwest of Paris. Pop: 55 392 (1999)
- beclouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becloud.
- bed rest — a period of resting in bed
- bed-rest — a prolonged rest in bed, as in the treatment of an illness.
- bed-sore — an ulceration of the skin and subcutaneous tissue caused by poor circulation due to prolonged pressure on body parts, especially bony protuberances, occurring in bedridden or immobile patients; decubitus ulcer.
- bedesman — beadsman
- bedevils — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedevil.
- bedights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedight.
- bedizens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedizen.
- bedouins — Plural form of bedouin.
- bedposts — one of the upright supports of a bedstead.
- bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
- bedrolls — Plural form of bedroll.
- bedrooms — Plural form of bedroom.