8-letter words containing s, c, o
- ashcroft — Dame Peggy. 1907–91, English stage and film actress
- asuncion — the capital and chief port of Paraguay, on the Paraguay River, 1530 km (950 miles) from the Atlantic. Pop: 1 750 000 (2005 est)
- atamasco — relating to an American lily of the genus Zephyranthes
- atchison — a city in NE Kansas, on the Missouri River.
- auctions — Plural form of auction.
- autopsic — relating to autopsy
- avionics — Avionics is the science of electronics used in aviation.
- avocados — Plural form of avocado.
- avouches — to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness.
- b school — business school.
- b-school — a business school or business college
- backhoes — Plural form of backhoe.
- backlogs — Plural form of backlog.
- backmost — furthest back
- backstop — a screen or fence to prevent balls leaving the playing area
- baconers — Plural form of baconer.
- baconism — of or relating to the philosopher Francis Bacon or his doctrines.
- ballocks — (nonce, used only by James Joyce) Alternative form of bollocks.
- bannocks — Plural form of bannock.
- barbasco — an evergreen South American plant, Jacquinia barbasco, which produces a poison harmless to humans but useful for stunning fish to make them easy to catch
- basecoat — a first coat of a surfacing material, as paint.
- beclouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becloud.
- bedsocks — the type of socks worn in bed
- besancon — a city in E France, on the Doubs River: university (1422). Pop: 121 012 (2006)
- bescorch — to scorch badly
- bifocals — Bifocals are glasses with lenses made in two halves. The top part is for looking at things some distance away, and the bottom part is for reading and looking at things that are close.
- binchois — Gilles [Dutch khil-uh s;; French zheel] /Dutch ˈxɪl əs;; French ʒil/ (Show IPA), or Egidius [Dutch ey-khee-dee-oo s] /Dutch eɪˈxi diˌʊs/ (Show IPA), c1400–60, Flemish composer.
- bioscope — a kind of early film projector
- bioscopy — examination of a body to determine whether it is alive
- biscotti — hard, plain, bar-shaped cookies containing almonds or hazelnuts
- biscotto — a thin Italian biscuit
- bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
- bitstock — the handle or stock of a tool into which a drilling bit is fixed
- blockish — lacking vivacity or imagination; stupid
- bockscar — the U.S. B-29 bomber that dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.
- bollocks — Bollocks is used by some people to express disagreement, dislike, or annoyance.
- bookcase — A bookcase is a piece of furniture with shelves that you keep books on.
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- bucolics — a pastoral poem.
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- c-scroll — an ornamental motif in the shape of a C , used chiefly on furniture.
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabooses — Plural form of caboose.
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- caducous — (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
- caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.