8-letter words containing or
- bad form — If you say that it is bad form to behave in a particular way, you mean that it is rude and impolite.
- bagworms — Plural form of bagworm.
- balmoral — a laced walking shoe
- bandores — Plural form of bandore.
- barndoor — The large door of a barn.
- barrator — a person guilty of barratry
- barretor — someone who deals fraudulently
- baseborn — born of humble parents
- baseword — (linguistics) The word used a base and upon whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- beadwork — a narrow strip of some material used for edging or ornamentation
- beaufort — Henry. ?1374–1447, English cardinal, half-brother of Henry IV; chancellor (1403–04, 1413–17, 1424–26)
- beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
- beckford — William. 1759–1844, English writer and dilettante; author of the oriental romance Vathek (1787)
- beclamor — clamour excessively
- bed-sore — an ulceration of the skin and subcutaneous tissue caused by poor circulation due to prolonged pressure on body parts, especially bony protuberances, occurring in bedridden or immobile patients; decubitus ulcer.
- bedsores — Bedsores are sore places on a person's skin, caused by having to lie in bed for a long time without changing position.
- bedworth — a town in central England, in N Warwickshire. Pop: 30 001 (2001)
- behavior — People's or animals' behavior is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behavior.
- belgorod — city in W European Russia, on the Donets River: pop. 318,000
- beliquor — to cause to be drunk
- bellmore — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- bellwort — any plant of the North American liliaceous genus Uvularia, having slender bell-shaped yellow flowers
- benidorm — a coastal resort town in W Spain, on the Costa Blanca
- bescorch — to scorch badly
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- biforked — two-pronged
- binormal — the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve.
- biomorph — a set of two-dimensional branching biomorphic images that can be used to illustrate evolutionary concepts
- bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
- bjornson — Björnstjerne [byœrn-styer-nuh] /ˈbyœrnˌstyɛr nə/ (Show IPA), 1832–1910, Norwegian poet, novelist, and playwright: Nobel Prize 1903.
- bodywork — The bodywork of a motor vehicle is the outside part of it.
- bollworm — any of various moth caterpillars, such as Pectinophora (or Platyedra) gossypiella (pink bollworm), that feed on and destroy cotton bolls
- bonporti — Francesco Antonio. 1672–1749, Italian composer and violinist, noted esp for his Invenzioni (1712), a series of short instrumental suites
- boo-word — any word that seems to cause irrational fear
- booklore — any knowledge or belief gained from books
- bookwork — the keeping of accounts
- bookworm — If you describe someone as a bookworm, you mean they are very fond of reading.
- borachio — a wine carrier made from animal skin, used in Spain
- boracite — a white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate and chloride in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Mg3ClB7O13
- borazine — a colorless liquid, B 3 N 3 H 6 , that hydrolyzes with water to form boron hydrides. It is the inorganic analogue of benzene with similar physical properties.
- borazole — a colorless liquid, B 3 N 3 H 6 , that hydrolyzes with water to form boron hydrides. It is the inorganic analogue of benzene with similar physical properties.
- bordeaux — a port in SW France, on the River Garonne: a major centre of the wine trade. Pop: 235 878 (2006)
- bordello — A bordello is a brothel.
- borderer — a person who lives in a border area, esp the border between England and Scotland
- borecole — kale (def 1).
- borehole — A borehole is a deep round hole made by a special tool or machine, especially one that is made in the ground when searching for oil or water.
- boresome — boring or uninteresting
- borghese — a noble Italian family whose members were influential in Italian art and politics from the 16th to the 19th century
- borghild — (in the Volsunga Saga) the first wife of Sigmund: she poisons Sinfiotli in revenge for his killing of her brother.