9-letter words containing h, o, t
- boat hook — a hook mounted at the end of a pole, used to pull or push boats toward or away from a landing, to pick up a mooring, etc.
- boat shoe — a shoe, usually in a style somewhat like a moccasin, with a rubber sole suitable for walking on the deck of a boat
- boathouse — A boathouse is a building at the edge of a lake, in which boats are kept.
- bohr atom — See under Bohr theory.
- bolt hole — a hole in the ground, protected opening in bushes, etc., into which an animal can flee when pursued or frightened.
- bolt-hole — If you say that someone has a bolt-hole to go to, you mean that there is somewhere that they can go when they want to get away from people that they know.
- bombsight — a mechanical or electronic device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
- booklight — a small light that can be clipped onto a book for reading by
- boom shot — a shot taken by a camera on a boom.
- boot hill — a cemetery of a frontier settlement, especially one in which gunfighters were buried.
- boot hook — one of a pair of L -shaped metal hooks fixed to a handle, for drawing on a boot by inserting it through a bootstrap.
- boothroyd — Betty. Baroness. born 1929, British politician; speaker of the House of Commons (1992–2000)
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- borghetto — (in Italy) a settlement outside a city's walls
- botchedly — in a botched or clumsy manner
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- bountyhed — the quality of being bounteous
- bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
- boyshorts — women's underpants which resemble close-fitting shorts, sitting below the waist and stretching to the tops of the legs
- broach to — to turn or swing so that the beam faces the waves and wind and there is danger of swamping or capsizing
- brochette — a skewer or small spit, used for holding pieces of meat, etc, while roasting or grilling
- brotherly — A man's brotherly feelings are feelings of love and loyalty which you expect a brother to show.
- bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- buck moth — a saturniid moth, Hemileuca maia, having delicate, grayish wings with a white band.
- buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
- bucktooth — a projecting upper front tooth
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- cachepots — Plural form of cachepot.
- cacoethes — an uncontrollable urge or desire, esp for something harmful; mania
- canonchet — (Nanuntenoo) died 1676, Narragansett leader: executed by colonists.
- cant hook — a heavy wooden lever with a blunt tip and a hinged hook near the end: used by lumbermen in handling logs
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- case shot — a quantity of small projectiles enclosed in a single case, as a shrapnel shell, for firing from a gun
- cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
- cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
- catch dog — a dog used to help round up livestock.
- catch out — To catch someone out means to cause them to make a mistake that reveals that they are lying about something, do not know something, or cannot do something.
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- catchpoll — (formerly) a petty officer of justice, especially one arresting persons for debt.
- catchword — A catchword is a word or phrase that becomes popular or well-known, for example, because it is associated with a political campaign.
- catchwork — A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
- cathinone — (organic compound) The aromatic amine 2-amino-1-phenyl-1-propanone that is the active ingredient of khat.
- catholics — Plural form of Catholic.
- cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.