8-letter words containing y, e, b
- honeybee — any bee that collects and stores honey, especially Apis mellifera.
- honeybun — A type of bun or pastry sweetened with honey.
- houseboy — houseman (def 1).
- hylobate — Any of the genus Hylobates of gibbons.
- hypobole — the act of anticipating objection for the purpose of refutation
- icy blue — of a very pale blue colour
- inedibly — In an inedible way.
- inkberry — Also called gallberry. a shrub, Ilex glabra, having leathery, evergreen leaves and black berries.
- kablooey — (colloquial) alternative spelling of kablooie.
- key club — a private nightclub admitting only members and their guests, the members often being given door keys to the club.
- keyboard — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- kibibyte — (computing) Strictly, 210 (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte.
- kielbasy — a smoked sausage of coarsely chopped beef and pork, flavored with garlic and spices.
- kilobyte — 1024 (2 10) bytes.
- kimberly — a city in E Cape of Good Hope province, in the central Republic of South Africa: diamond mines.
- lambency — the quality of being lambent.
- lay bare — to reveal or explain
- lazy bed — (in parts of Scotland and Ireland, formerly) a patch in which potatoes were cultivated by laying them on the surface and covering them with kelp and with soil from a trench on either side of the bed
- libertys — a town in W Missouri.
- lifebuoy — A life preserver, especially one in the shape of a ring.
- likeably — In a likeable way.
- limberly — In a limber manner.
- loverboy — A male lover, especially a young one.
- lubberly — of or resembling a lubber.
- lumberly — heavy and unwieldy
- lyrebird — an Australian passerine bird of the genus Menura, the male of which has a long tail that is lyrate when spread.
- mangabey — any of several slender, long-tailed monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, inhabiting forests of Africa: some species are endangered.
- marybeth — a female given name.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- mebibyte — (computing) 220 (1,048,576) bytes. Abbreviated MiB.
- megabyte — 2 20 (1,048,576) bytes.
- metaboly — the ability of some cells, esp protozoans, to alter their shape
- moneybag — a bag for money.
- moneybox — piggy bank: container for coins
- moveably — in a movable manner
- mulberry — the edible, berrylike collective fruit of any tree of the genus Morus.
- myxameba — the amebalike, usually nonflagellated, uninucleate haploid individual of a sporocarp that is released upon spore germination and feeds by engulfing bacteria and yeast: a typical stage in the life cycle of cellular slime molds.
- nebbishy — a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
- newsboys — Plural form of newsboy.
- noncyber — Not cyber; noncomputer.
- obeyable — to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
- oblately — In an oblate manner.
- obtusely — not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull.
- ore-body — a well-defined mass of ore-bearing rock.
- overbusy — Excessively busy.
- overbuys — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbuy.
- paperboy — a youth or man who sells newspapers on the street or delivers them to homes; newsboy.
- passerby — a person passing by.
- payables — debts to be paid
- peaberry — a single seed coffee berry; a round coffee bean