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9-letter words containing b, o, y

  • city-born — born in a city.
  • cob money — crude silver coins issued in the Spanish colonies of the New World from about 1600 until 1820
  • coercibly — in a coercible way
  • colorably — in a colourable manner
  • columbary — a dovecote
  • conybeare — William Daniel. 1787–1857, British geologist. He summarized all that was known about rocks at the time in Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822)
  • copybooks — Plural form of copybook.
  • copybroke — (security)   /kop'ee-brohk/ (Or "copywronged" - a play on "copyright") 1. Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been "broken"; that is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disabled or removed. 2. Copy-protected software which is unusable because of some bit-rot or bug that has confused the copy protection. 3. Used to describe data damaged because of a side effect of a copy protection system.
  • corymbose — characterized by or growing in corymbs; corymblike.
  • countably — in a countable manner
  • cover boy — an attractive young man whose picture is featured on a magazine cover.
  • cowboy up — to adopt a tough approach or course of action
  • cowboying — Present participle of cowboy.
  • coxcombry — conceited arrogance or foppishness
  • crowberry — a low-growing N temperate evergreen shrub, Empetrum nigrum, with small purplish flowers and black berry-like fruit: family Empetraceae
  • cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
  • cryocable — a highly conducting electrical cable cooled with a refrigerant such as liquid nitrogen
  • cryoprobe — a surgical instrument with an extremely cold tip, used in cryosurgery to destroy tissue
  • cubbyhole — A cubbyhole is a very small room or space for storing things.
  • cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
  • currycomb — a square comb consisting of rows of small teeth, used for grooming horses
  • cyberbook — (science fiction) A digital or electronic equivalent of a book.
  • cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
  • cyberporn — any pornography accessible online or on the internet
  • cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
  • cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
  • cymbiform — having the shape of a boat
  • cynophobe — A person with cynophobia.
  • day labor — workers hired on a daily basis only, especially unskilled labor.
  • daybeacon — an unlighted navigational beacon used as a daymark.
  • diabolify — (transitive) To ascribe diabolical qualities to; to change into, or represent as, a devil.
  • diabology — the study of the devil or devils
  • dicky bow — a bow tie
  • disembody — to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
  • disobeyed — Simple past tense and past participle of disobey.
  • disobeyer — One who disobeys.
  • ditty box — a small box used like a ditty bag.
  • doability — Feasibility; practicability.
  • dobsonfly — a large, soft-bodied insect, Corydalus cornutus, having four distinctly veined membranous wings, biting mouthparts, and, in the male, huge mandibles that jut out from the head.
  • dogberrys — a foolish constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
  • doggy bag — a small bag provided on request by a restaurant for a customer to carry home leftovers of a meal, ostensibly to feed a dog or other pet.
  • dolly tub — an apparatus for agitating and washing ore in a vessel
  • dollybird — an attractive and fashionable girl, esp one who is considered to be unintelligent
  • doubledayAbner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
  • doubtably — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
  • doughboys — Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
  • dubiosity — dubiety.
  • dubiously — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
  • duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
  • dutybound — Compelled by duty.
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