8-letter words containing t, o, e, s
- 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.
- bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
- blondest — (of a woman or girl) having fair hair and usually fair skin and light eyes.
- blotless — without blots or blemishes, pure, faultless
- 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
- boltless — without any bolts
- bombsite — an area where the buildings have been destroyed by bombs
- 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
- boothose — a protective stocking or boot liner fashionable in the 17th century
- bootless — of little or no use; vain; fruitless
- botryose — Mineralogy. botryoidal.
- botsares — Markos [Greek mahr-kaws] /Greek ˈmɑr kɔs/ (Show IPA), Bozzaris, Marco.
- 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
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- camstone — a limestone used for whitening stone doorsteps and hearths
- canoeist — A canoeist is someone who is skilled at racing and performing tests of skill in a canoe.
- capstone — one of a set of slabs on the top of a wall, building, etc
- case out — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
- cathouse — a house of prostitution
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- centimos — Plural form of centimo.
- centoist — a person who composes centos
- cerritos — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 51,000
- cestodes — Plural form of cestode.
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- chepstow — a town in S Wales, in Monmouthshire on the River Wye: tourism, light industry. Pop: 10 821 (2001)
- cheroots — Plural form of cheroot.
- choicest — an act or instance of choosing; selection: Her choice of a computer was made after months of research. His parents were not happy with his choice of friends.