8-letter words containing a, b, o, u
- quotably — in a quotable manner
- rombauer — Irma von Starkloff [stahrk-lawf,, ‐lof] /ˈstɑrk lɔf,, ‐lɒf/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, U.S. cooking expert and cookbook writer.
- rubbaboo — a soup made from pemmican boiled in water, sometimes thickened with flour
- rubboard — a board for scrubbing clothes on
- runabout — a small, light automobile or other vehicle, usually with an open top; roadster.
- saboteur — a person who commits or practices sabotage.
- sabulous — sandy; gritty.
- saucebox — a saucy person.
- scabious — covered with or consisting of scabs; scabby.
- scabrous — having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.
- shabuoth — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- sourball — a round piece of hard candy with a tart or acid fruit flavoring.
- stamboul — Istanbul
- sub rosa — confidentially; secretly; privately.
- subabbot — an abbot who is subordinate to another abbot
- subaudio — (of a sound) low frequency
- subcosta — a longitudinal vein in the anterior portion of the wing of an insect.
- subgoals — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- subimago — the first winged stage of the mayfly, with dull opaque wings, known to anglers as a dun, before it metamorphoses into the shiny gauzy imago or spinner
- subnodal — below the level of a node
- subotica — a city in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, in N Serbia.
- subovate — almost egg-shaped
- subpoena — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subpolar — subantarctic.
- subsolar — situated beneath the sun or between the earth and the sun.
- subtaxon — a supplementary piece of identifying information in a plant's or animal's scientific name
- subtopia — suburban development that encroaches on rural areas yet appears to offer the attractions of country life to suburban dwellers
- subtotal — the sum or total of a part of a group or column of figures, as in an accounting statement.
- subvocal — mentally formulated as words, especially without vocalization.
- subzonal — located under a zona, esp under the zona of an ovum
- surfboat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- tabouleh — a salad of fine-ground bulgur, parsley, tomatoes, green onions, mint, olive oil, and lemon juice.
- tabouret — a low seat without back or arms, for one person; stool.
- tamboura — an Asian musical instrument of the lute family having a small, round body and a long neck.
- toad bug — any of several small broad aquatic insect-eating hemipterous insects of the family Gelastocoridae, having toadlike characteristics.
- tombaugh — Clyde William, 1906–97, U.S. astronomer: discovered Pluto 1930.
- turbocar — a car driven by a gas turbine
- turbofan — a jet engine having a large impeller that takes in air, part of which is used in combustion of fuel, the remainder being mixed with the products of combustion to form a low-velocity exhaust jet.
- umbonate — having an umbo or projecting boss.
- undoable — to reverse the doing of; cause to be as if never done: Murder once done can never be undone.
- unilobar — (of an organ in the body) having, consisting of, or relating to one lobe