8-letter words containing s, e, r, o
- asperous — Rough, rugged, uneven.
- assentor — any of the eight voters legally required to endorse the nomination of a candidate in a parliamentary or local election in addition to the nominator and seconder
- assertor — One who asserts or avers.
- assessor — An assessor is a person who is employed to calculate the value of something, or the amount of money that should be paid, for example in tax.
- assorted — A group of assorted things is a group of similar things that are of different sizes or colours or have different qualities.
- assorter — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- asterion — (anatomy) The point on the side of the skull corresponding to the posterior end of the parietomastoid suture.
- asteroid — An asteroid is one of the very small planets that move around the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
- atomiser — Modern commonwealth spelling of 'atomizer'.
- attestor — to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.
- aureoles — Plural form of aureole.
- averroes — Arabic name ibn-Rushd. 1126–88, Arab philosopher and physician in Spain, noted particularly for his attempts to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy with Islamic religion, which profoundly influenced Christian scholasticism
- aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.
- awesomer — (nonstandard) Comparative form of awesome.
- azureous — (zoology) of a fine blue color; azure.
- baconers — Plural form of baconer.
- bandores — Plural form of bandore.
- baroness — A baroness is a woman who is a member of the lowest rank of the nobility, or who is the wife of a baron.
- baronets — Plural form of baronet.
- baronies — Plural form of barony.
- baroques — (often initial capital letter) of or relating to a style of architecture and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century and variously prevalent in Europe and the New World for a century and a half, characterized by free and sculptural use of the classical orders and ornament, by forms in elevation and plan suggesting movement, and by dramatic effect in which architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts often worked to combined effect.
- baseborn — born of humble parents
- baseword — (linguistics) The word used a base and upon whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- 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.
- bedrolls — Plural form of bedroll.
- bedrooms — Plural form of bedroom.
- bedsores — Bedsores are sore places on a person's skin, caused by having to lie in bed for a long time without changing position.
- berenson — Bernard. 1865–1959, US art historian, born in Lithuania: an authority on art of the Italian Renaissance
- bernanos — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1888–1948, French novelist and Roman Catholic pamphleteer, best known for The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)
- bescorch — to scorch badly
- beshroud — to cover with a shroud
- bestrode — to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
- bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
- bloomers — Bloomers are an old-fashioned kind of women's underwear which consists of wide, loose trousers gathered at the knees.
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- boiserie — finely-sculptured wood panelling or wainscoating, particularly in 18th-century French architecture
- boodlers — the lot, pack, or crowd: Send the whole boodle back to the factory.
- bookrest — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- 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
- botryose — Mineralogy. botryoidal.
- botsares — Markos [Greek mahr-kaws] /Greek ˈmɑr kɔs/ (Show IPA), Bozzaris, Marco.
- boursier — a foundation level scholar
- bresaola — (in Italian cookery) air-dried, salted beef
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- broekies — underpants
- browless — without eyebrows
- burleson — a city in N Texas.