9-letter words containing a, b, e, o
- baseboard — A baseboard is a narrow length of wood which goes along the bottom of a wall in a room and makes a border between the walls and the floor.
- basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
- basophile — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- batchelor — (British) alternative spelling of bachelor.
- bathhouse — A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths and often other facilities such as a sauna.
- batholite — (obsolete) alternative name of batholith.
- bathrobes — Plural form of bathrobe.
- batmobile — (slang) To proceed in a fast, urgent, or reckless way, especially in a vehicle.
- batswomen — Plural form of batswoman.
- batten on — If you say that someone battens on a particular person or thing, you disapprove of the fact that they become successful by forming a close connection with that person or thing.
- bay shore — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- bayoneted — a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-to-hand combat.
- beachcomb — to search for and collect objects such as seashells and driftwood along the seashore
- beachgoer — a person who goes to the beach, esp frequently
- beaconage — a number or system of beacons.
- beaconing — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- beadhouse — an almshouse in which inhabitants were expected to pray for the soul of the founder
- beadledom — petty officialdom
- beam hole — a hole in the shield of a nuclear reactor through which a beam of radiation, esp of neutrons, is allowed to escape for experimental purposes
- bean shot — refined copper having a shotlike form from being thrown into water in a molten state.
- bean town — Boston, Mass. (used as a nickname).
- beanpoles — Plural form of beanpole.
- bear down — If someone or something bears down on you, they move quickly towards you in a threatening way.
- beasthood — the state of beasts, the condition of being a beast
- beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
- beat-down — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- beatboxer — (music) A performer who imitates the sound of musical instruments, especially percussion, with his or her voice.
- beatboxes — Plural form of beatbox.
- beauteous — Beauteous means the same as beautiful.
- beaverton — a town in NW Oregon.
- beccafico — any of various European songbirds, esp warblers of the genus Sylvia, eaten as a delicacy in Italy and other countries
- beclamour — to clamour excessively
- bed board — a thin, stiff board placed on a bed under the mattress to lend added support for the body
- beef road — a road used for transporting cattle
- beggardom — beggary (def 2).
- beglamour — to endow with glamour
- behaviors — manner of behaving or acting.
- behaviour — People's or animals' behaviour is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behaviour.
- bel canto — a style of singing characterized by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
- belafonte — Harry, born 1922, U.S. singer and actor.
- bell toad — a frog, Ascaphus truei, of the northwestern U.S. and adjacent Canada, the male of which has its cloaca modified into a taillike copulatory organ.
- belomancy — the art of divination using arrows
- below par — If you say that someone or something is below par or under par, you are disappointed in them because they are below the standard you expected.
- ben hogan — Ben, 1912–97, U.S. golfer.
- beriosova — Svetlana (svɪtˈlanə). 1932–98, British ballet dancer, born in Lithuania
- beta iron — a nonmagnetic allotrope of pure iron stable between 770°C and 910°C
- betatopic — (of atoms) differing in proton number by one, theoretically as a result of emission of a beta particle
- betrothal — A betrothal is an agreement to be married.
- betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.