8-letter words containing s, n, o, b
- bluenose — a puritanical or prudish person
- blush-on — blusher (def 2).
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boatsman — boatman.
- bodensee — Constance2 (sense 2)
- boldness — not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or rebuff; courageous and daring: a bold hero.
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- bombesin — a hormone partly responsible for regulating appetite
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bondless — without bonds, unrestrained
- bondsman — a person bound by bond to act as surety for another
- bondsmen — a person who by bond becomes surety for another.
- bone ash — the residue obtained when bones are burned in air, consisting mainly of calcium phosphate. It is used as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of bone china
- bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
- boneless — without bones; specif., with the bones removed
- bongoist — a player of the bongos
- boniness — the condition of being bony
- bonspiel — a curling match
- bontemps — Arna Wendell [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–73, U.S. author.
- boonless — useless or unhelpful
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- bosthoon — a boor
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- botswana — a republic in southern Africa: established as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland in 1885 as a defence against the Boers; became an independent state within the Commonwealth in 1966; consists mostly of a plateau averaging 1000 m (3300 ft), with the extensive Okavango swamps in the northwest and the Kalahari Desert in the southwest. Languages: English and Tswana. Religion: animist majority. Currency: pula. Capital: Gaborone. Pop: 2 127 825 (2013 est). Area: about 570 000 sq km (220 000 sq miles)
- bourbons — a member of a French royal family that ruled in France 1589–1792, Spain 1700–1931, and Naples 1735–1806, 1815–60.
- bowyangs — a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers
- boxiness — the quality of being boxy
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- brownish — Something that is brownish is slightly brown in colour.
- brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
- brownson — Orestes Augustus, 1803–76, U.S. writer.
- browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
- brush-on — fit to be applied with a brush: a brush-on paint remover.
- bullnose — a rounded exterior angle, as where two walls meet
- bunuelos — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- burnoose — a long cloak with a hood, worn by Arabs and Moors
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- byronism — of or relating to Lord Byron.
- casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
- combines — Plural form of combine.
- combings — the loose hair, wool, etc, removed by combing, esp that of animals
- corbinas — Plural form of corbina.
- corncobs — Plural form of corncob.
- disbound — (of a book) having the binding torn or loose.
- ebionism — the teaching upheld by the Ebionites that said that Jesus was a mortal human being, that Christians should adhere to Jewish law and that absence of wealth was a preferred religious quality
- ennobles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ennoble.
- fishbone — A bone from a fish.