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8-letter words containing b, e, o

  • benidorm — a coastal resort town in W Spain, on the Costa Blanca
  • beninois — a native or inhabitant of Benin
  • benthoal — relating to deep-sea plants and animals
  • bentwood — wood bent in moulds after being heated by steaming, used mainly for furniture
  • benzoate — any salt or ester of benzoic acid, containing the group C6H5COO– or the ion C6H5COO–
  • bepommel — to beat vigorously
  • bepowder — to cover with powder
  • berenson — Bernard. 1865–1959, US art historian, born in Lithuania: an authority on art of the Italian Renaissance
  • bergamot — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
  • bernanos — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1888–1948, French novelist and Roman Catholic pamphleteer, best known for The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)
  • berouged — wearing rouge
  • besancon — a city in E France, on the Doubs River: university (1422). Pop: 121 012 (2006)
  • bescorch — to scorch badly
  • beshadow — to darken with shadow
  • beshroud — to cover with a shroud
  • besmooth — to smooth
  • besognio — a young soldier
  • besoothe — to soothe
  • besotted — If you are besotted with someone or something, you like them so much that you seem foolish or silly.
  • besought — beseech
  • besouled — having a soul
  • bespoken — a past participle of bespeak.
  • bespouse — to marry
  • best boy — the assistant to the senior electrician or to the key grip in a film crew
  • bestowal — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
  • bestowed — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
  • bestrode — to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
  • betatron — a type of particle accelerator for producing high-energy beams of electrons, having an alternating magnetic field to keep the electrons in a circular orbit of fixed radius and accelerate them by magnetic induction. It produces energies of up to about 300 MeV
  • betazole — a substance, C 5 H 9 N 3 , used in medicine to stimulate gastric secretion.
  • bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
  • beyrouth — Beirut.
  • bezonian — a knave or rascal
  • bhc code — Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem Code
  • bichrome — having two colours
  • biconvex — (of a lens) having convex faces on both sides; convexo-convex
  • bien hoa — a town in S Vietnam: a former capital of Cambodia. Pop: 520 000 (2005 est)
  • biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
  • biforked — two-pronged
  • big-note — to boast about (oneself)
  • billowed — a great wave or surge of the sea.
  • bilobate — divided into or having two lobes
  • bioclean — free from harmful bacteria
  • biocycle — the cycling of chemicals through the biosphere
  • biogenic — produced or originating from a living organism
  • biometer — a device for measuring the production of carbon dioxide in functioning tissue
  • biometry — the analysis of biological data using mathematical and statistical methods
  • biopsied — the removal for diagnostic study of a piece of tissue from a living body.
  • bioscope — a kind of early film projector
  • bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
  • blazoned — to set forth conspicuously or publicly; display; proclaim: The pickets blazoned their grievances on placards.
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