8-letter words containing s, t, o
- barostat — a device for maintaining constant pressure, such as one used in an aircraft cabin
- barstool — a stool or seat, usually high and having a round, cushioned top, of a type often used for seating customers at a bar.
- basecoat — a first coat of a surfacing material, as paint.
- bash out — If you say that someone bashes something out, you mean that they produce it quickly or in large quantities, but without much care or thought.
- bastions — Plural form of bastion.
- bastogne — a town in SE Belgium: of strategic importance to Allied defences during the Battle of the Bulge; besieged by the Germans during the winter of 1944–45. Pop: 14 070 (2004 est)
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- bayonets — Plural form of bayonet.
- baziotes — William, 1912–63, U.S. painter.
- be toast — If someone is toast, you mean that they are certain to be defeated or destroyed.
- bedposts — one of the upright supports of a bedstead.
- bedstone — A large, heavy, flat stone used to support a column or similar member, or as the lower stone of an oil mill.
- belostok — a city in E Poland.
- besmooth — to smooth
- besoothe — to soothe
- besotted — If you are besotted with someone or something, you like them so much that you seem foolish or silly.
- besought — beseech
- best boy — the assistant to the senior electrician or to the key grip in a film crew
- bestowal — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- bestowed — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- bestrode — to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
- big shot — A big shot is an important and powerful person in a group or organization.
- bioplast — a very small unit of bioplasm
- birdshot — small pellets designed for shooting birds
- 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
- bistoury — a long surgical knife with a narrow blade
- bitstock — the handle or stock of a tool into which a drilling bit is fixed
- blastoff — Blastoff is the moment when a rocket leaves the ground and rises into the air to begin a journey into space.
- blastoid — a type of extinct echinoderm, which can be found in fossil form in regions of North America
- blastoma — a tumour composed of embryonic tissue that has not yet developed a specialized function
- blissout — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- blogpost — A blogpost is a piece of writing that forms part of a regular blog.
- blondest — (of a woman or girl) having fair hair and usually fair skin and light eyes.
- blotless — without blots or blemishes, pure, faultless
- boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
- boatsman — boatman.
- bodysuit — A bodysuit is a piece of women's clothing that fits tightly over the top part of the body and fastens between the legs.
- boethius — Anicius Manlius Severinus (əˈnɪsɪəs ˈmænlɪəs ˌsɛvəˈraɪnəs). ?480–?524 ad, Roman philosopher and statesman, noted particularly for his work De Consolatione Philosophiae. He was accused of treason and executed by Theodoric
- bogosity — /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the microLenat. Also, the potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter.
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- boltless — without any bolts
- bombsite — an area where the buildings have been destroyed by bombs
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bongoist — a player of the bongos
- bontemps — Arna Wendell [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–73, U.S. author.
- bookrest — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably