8-letter words containing w, b, o
- 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
- brownout — a dimming or reduction in the use of electric lights in a city, esp to conserve electric power or as a defensive precaution in wartime
- brownson — Orestes Augustus, 1803–76, U.S. writer.
- browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
- budgerow — a large slow-moving barge formerly used on the Ganges
- bulawayo — a city in SW Zimbabwe founded (1893) on the site of the kraal of Lobengula, the last Matabele king; the country's main industrial centre. Pop: 693 000 (2005 est)
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- burlwood — wood taken or cut from a burl.
- burrowed — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- busywork — Busywork is work that is intended to keep someone occupied and is not completely necessary.
- buy-down — a subsidy for a long-term mortgage offered by a third party, as a builder or developer, to lower interest rates for a buyer in the early years of the loan.
- buzzword — A buzzword is a word or expression that has become fashionable in a particular field and is being used a lot by the media.
- bye-blow — by-blow (def 2).
- cobwebby — bearing an accumulation of cobwebs.
- combwise — in the manner of a comb
- cowbells — Plural form of cowbell.
- cowberry — a creeping ericaceous evergreen shrub, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, of N temperate and arctic regions, with pink or red flowers and edible slightly acid berries
- cowbirds — Plural form of cowbird.
- crabwood — a tropical American meliaceous tree, Carapa guianensis
- cribwork — a supporting framework of beams, logs, etc. built in layers, each layer having its unit at right angles to those of the layer below
- crossbow — A crossbow is a weapon consisting of a small, powerful bow that is fixed across a piece of wood, and aimed like a gun.
- crowbait — an emaciated, worn-out horse or cow.
- crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
- crowboot — a type of Inuit boot made of fur and leather
- disbowel — (rare) To disembowel.
- down-bow — (in bowing on a stringed instrument) a stroke bringing the tip of the bow toward the strings, indicated in scores by the symbol (opposed to up-bow).
- downbeat — the downward stroke of a conductor's arm or baton indicating the first or accented beat of a measure.
- downbent — Bent downward.
- dowsabel — sweetheart.
- drawbore — a hole in a tenon made eccentric with the corresponding holes to the mortise so that the two pieces being joined will be forced tightly together when the pin (drawbore pin) is hammered into place.
- dumbshow — Gestures used to convey a meaning or message without speech; mime.
- dustbowl — An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry.
- elbowing — Present participle of elbow.
- embowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embower.
- eyebrows — Plural form of eyebrow.
- face bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- face-bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- fishbowl — a glass bowl for goldfish, snails, etc.
- flowable — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flowback — return or redistribution of something that has been received or acquired.
- flyblown — covered with flyblows: flyblown meat.
- flyblows — the eggs or young larvae of a blowfly, deposited on meat, paper, etc
- food web — a series of organisms related by predator-prey and consumer-resource interactions; the entirety of interrelated food chains in an ecological community.
- furbelow — a ruffle or flounce, as on a woman's skirt or petticoat.
- grow bag — a plastic bag containing a sufficient amount of a sterile growing medium and nutrients to enable a plant, such as a tomato or pepper, to be grown to full size in it, usually for one season only
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- grubworm — grub (def 1).
- highbrow — a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
- homebrew — beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.