8-letter words containing eb
- nebulose — cloudlike; nebulous.
- nebulous — hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous recollection of the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit.
- netrebko — Anna. born 1971, Russian operatic soprano
- ninebark — any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Physocarpus, of the rose family, having bark that separates into thin layers.
- nosebags — Plural form of nosebag.
- noseband — that part of a bridle or halter that passes over the animal's nose.
- notebook — a book of or for notes.
- open-web — having a web of zigzag or crisscross lacing.
- palpebra — an eyelid
- pebbling — a small, rounded stone, especially one worn smooth by the action of water.
- phleboid — pertaining to or resembling a vein.
- plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
- prebasal — (in biology) located in front of a base, or in front of a basal part
- prebirth — the period, usually six months, preceding a child's birth.
- prebless — to bless beforehand, esp to bless a couple before they marry
- preboard — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- prebuild — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- prebuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- purebred — of or relating to an animal, all of whose ancestors derive over many generations from a recognized breed.
- quasheba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quebecer — a native or inhabitant of Quebec, especially one who is from the city of Quebec and whose native language is French.
- quebrada — Southwestern U.S. a ravine.
- rebating — a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
- rebeldom — a region or territory controlled by rebels.
- rebelled — a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.
- rebeller — someone who rebels; a rebel
- rebellow — to re-echo loudly
- reboiler — A reboiler is a stage in distillation when a liquid is heated again to make some of it become a vapor.
- reborrow — to borrow (something, esp money) again
- rebottle — to bottle (a liquid or substance) again
- rebought — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- rebranch — (of a branch, tree, evolutionary tree, etc) to branch again
- reburial — the act of burying (something, esp a dead body) in the ground again
- rebuttal — an act of rebutting, as in a debate.
- rebutted — to refute by evidence or argument.
- rebutter — a defendant's answer to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
- rebutton — to button (a garment, etc) again
- ricebird — Southern U.S. the bobolink.
- roebling — John Augustus, 1806–69, U.S. engineer, born in Germany: pioneer of wire-rope suspension bridges, designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
- rosebery — Archibald Philip Primrose [prim-rohz] /ˈprɪmˌroʊz/ (Show IPA), 5th Earl of, 1847–1929, British statesman and author: prime minister 1894–95.
- rosebowl — a decorative bowl for displaying roses
- roseburg — a city in W Oregon.
- rosebush — a shrub that bears roses.
- runeberg — Johan Ludvig 1804–77, Finnish poet, who wrote in Swedish. His works include the epic King Fialar (1844) and patriotic poems including the Finnish national anthem
- ryebread — any of various breads made entirely or partly from rye flour, often with caraway seeds
- saucebox — a saucy person.
- sebesten — the plum-like fruit of a tree of the genus Cordia (formerly Sebestena)
- shoebill — a large, African, storklike bird, Balaeniceps rex, having a broad, flattened bill shaped somewhat like a shoe.
- sideband — the band of frequencies at the sides of the carrier frequency of a modulated signal.
- sidebone — ossification of the cartilages in the lateral portion of the foot of a horse, resulting in lameness.