8-letter words containing t, e, b
- baluster — any of a set of posts supporting a rail or coping
- bandelet — a small band of any kind, particularly one worn around the head
- bandmate — a fellow member of a band
- bandster — a person who goes behind a reaper and binds sheaves of wheat
- bangster — a ruffian; thug
- banister — A banister is a rail supported by posts and fixed along the side of a staircase. The plural banisters can be used to refer to one of these rails.
- banknote — Banknotes are pieces of paper money.
- bankster — a banker or investor whose financial practices have been exposed as illegal
- banneret — a knight who was entitled to command other knights and men-at-arms under his own banner
- banquets — Plural form of banquet.
- banstead — a town in S England, in NE Surrey. Pop: 19 332 (2001)
- bantengs — Plural form of banteng.
- bantered — Simple past tense and past participle of banter.
- banterer — One who banters.
- baptised — to immerse in water or sprinkle or pour water on in the Christian rite of baptism: They baptized the new baby.
- baptises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptise.
- baptized — Simple past tense and past participle of baptize.
- baptizer — someone who baptises
- baptizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptize.
- barathea — a fabric made of silk and wool or cotton and rayon, used esp for coats
- barbette — (formerly) an earthen platform inside a parapet, from which heavy guns could fire over the top
- bareboat — a boat that can be chartered without crew, provisions, etc
- barefoot — Someone who is barefoot or barefooted is not wearing anything on their feet.
- barghest — (in the North of England, esp Yorkshire) a goblin that appears in the shape of a dog as an omen of death or other misfortune
- baritone — In music, a baritone is a man with a fairly deep singing voice that is lower than that of a tenor but higher than that of a bass.
- barletta — a port in SE Italy, in Apulia. Pop: 92 094 (2001)
- barometz — a type of Asian fern, Cibotium barometz, the woolly rhizoma of which is thought to resemble a lamb
- baronets — Plural form of baronet.
- barretor — someone who deals fraudulently
- barretry — barratry
- barrette — A barrette is a small metal or plastic device that a woman uses to hold her hair in position.
- barrulet — a narrow band across a heraldic shield, taking up one twentieth of the shield's height
- bartered — to trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money.
- barterer — One who barters: one who trades goods for other goods without involving money.
- bartlett — the Williams pear, used esp in the US and generally of tinned pears
- barytone — having the last syllable unaccented
- basaltes — unglazed black stoneware
- basanite — a black basaltic rock containing plagioclase, augite, olivine, and nepheline, leucite, or analcite, formerly used as a touchstone
- base hit — a play in which the batter hits a fair ball and gets on base without benefit of an opponent's error and without forcing out a runner already on base
- basecoat — a first coat of a surfacing material, as paint.
- basement — The basement of a building is a floor built partly or completely below ground level.
- bashment — (slang, countable, especially Jamaican) A party or rave.
- basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
- basketry — Basketry is baskets made by weaving together thin strips of materials such as wood.
- basseted — an outcrop, as of the edges of strata.
- bassinet — A bassinet is a small bed for a baby that is like a basket.
- bastides — Plural form of bastide.
- bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
- 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)
- bateless — not abating or not able to be abated