8-letter words containing s, t
- bowsprit — a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel, esp a sailing vessel, used to carry the headstay as far forward as possible
- box seat — a seat in a theatre box
- box step — a basic step in ballroom dancing, in which the feet move in the form of a rectangle
- brackets — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- breasted — having a breast.
- breathes — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
- brewster — Sir David. 1781–1868, Scottish physicist, noted for his studies of the polarization of light
- briefest — lasting or taking a short time; of short duration: a brief walk; a brief stay in the country.
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- bristols — a woman's breasts
- britches — breeches (sense 2)
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
- buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
- buddhist — A Buddhist is a person whose religion is Buddhism.
- bulldust — fine dust
- bulliest — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bullshit — If you say that something is bullshit, you are saying that it is nonsense or completely untrue.
- bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- burinist — a person who works with a burin
- bursitis — inflammation of a bursa, esp one in the shoulder joint
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- bus stop — A bus stop is a place on a road where buses stop to let passengers on and off.
- bush lot — a tract of timberland
- bush tea — a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia, of southern Africa
- bush tit — any of several North American titmice of the genus Psaltriparus, which construct long, pendent nests.
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- bust ass — Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort: She was determined to make straight A's or bust.
- bust out — escape from somewhere
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.
- butchest — butch haircut.
- butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
- butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous
- by sight — by appearance; by recognizing but not through being acquainted
- by turns — You can use by turns to indicate that someone has two particular emotions or qualities, one after the other.
- bystreet — an obscure or secondary street
- cabalist — a member of a cabal.
- cabarets — Plural form of cabaret.
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- cabstand — a taxi rank