8-letter words containing b, o, s
- bjørnson — Bjørnstjerne (ˈbjɜːnstjɛənə; Norwegian ˈbjørnstjernə). 1832–1910, Norwegian poet, dramatist, novelist, theatre director, and newspaper editor; mainly remembered for social dramas, such as The Bankrupt (1875): Nobel prize for literature 1903
- blastoff — Blastoff is the moment when a rocket leaves the ground and rises into the air to begin a journey into space.
- blastoid — a type of extinct echinoderm, which can be found in fossil form in regions of North America
- blastoma — a tumour composed of embryonic tissue that has not yet developed a specialized function
- blissout — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- blockish — lacking vivacity or imagination; stupid
- blogpost — A blogpost is a piece of writing that forms part of a regular blog.
- blokeish — denoting or exhibiting the characteristics believed typical of an ordinary man
- blondest — (of a woman or girl) having fair hair and usually fair skin and light eyes.
- blondish — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- bloomers — Bloomers are an old-fashioned kind of women's underwear which consists of wide, loose trousers gathered at the knees.
- blotless — without blots or blemishes, pure, faultless
- blousily — in the manner of a blouse
- blousing — a usually lightweight, loose-fitting garment for women and children, covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, with or without a collar and sleeves, worn inside or outside a skirt, slacks, etc.
- blowfish — puffer (sense 2)
- blowjobs — an act or instance of fellatio. See also oral sex.
- bluenose — a puritanical or prudish person
- blush-on — blusher (def 2).
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
- boatsman — boatman.
- bobbysox — bobbysocks
- bobruisk — a port in Belarus, on the River Berezina: engineering, timber, tyre manufacturing. Pop: 219 000 (2005 est)
- bockscar — the U.S. B-29 bomber that dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.
- bodensee — Constance2 (sense 2)
- bodiless — having no body or substance; incorporeal or insubstantial
- bodysuit — A bodysuit is a piece of women's clothing that fits tightly over the top part of the body and fastens between the legs.
- bodysurf — to engage in the sport of surfing while lying prone on a wave without the use of a surfboard
- boethius — Anicius Manlius Severinus (əˈnɪsɪəs ˈmænlɪəs ˌsɛvəˈraɪnəs). ?480–?524 ad, Roman philosopher and statesman, noted particularly for his work De Consolatione Philosophiae. He was accused of treason and executed by Theodoric
- bog moss — peat moss.
- bog rush — a blackish tufted cyperaceous plant, Schoenus nigricans, growing on boggy ground
- bogalusa — a city in SE Louisiana.
- bogeyism — the recognition of or belief in the existence of ghosts or demons
- bogomips — (unit) (From "bogus", "MIPS") The timing unit of the Linux kernel. A BogoMips is an unscientific measurement of processor speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop.
- bogosity — /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the microLenat. Also, the potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter.
- boiserie — finely-sculptured wood panelling or wainscoating, particularly in 18th-century French architecture
- boksburg — city in central Gauteng province, South Africa: pop. 120,000
- boldness — not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or rebuff; courageous and daring: a bold hero.
- bollocks — Bollocks is used by some people to express disagreement, dislike, or annoyance.
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- boltless — without any bolts
- bombesin — a hormone partly responsible for regulating appetite
- bombsite — an area where the buildings have been destroyed by bombs
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bondless — without bonds, unrestrained
- bondsman — a person bound by bond to act as surety for another