9-letter words containing k, o, b
- blockbust — to encourage the sale of property by means of blockbusting
- blockhead — a stupid person
- blockhole — a mark or marks on a cricket pitch around the area where the batsman stands, caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the ground
- blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
- blockwork — a wall or structure made of bricks or blocks, or the act of building such a structure
- bloodlike — resembling blood
- blow-back — Blow-back is when the air flow through a carburetor suddenly changes direction. This is often caused by incorrect ignition.
- blue book — A blue book is an official government report or register of statistics.
- boardlike — resembling a board
- boardwalk — A boardwalk is a path made of wooden boards, especially one along a beach.
- boat deck — the deck of a ship on which the lifeboats are kept
- 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 neck — a high slitlike neckline of a garment that extends onto the shoulders
- bob skate — an ice skate with two parallel blades
- bobbysock — ankle-length sock worn esp by teenage girls
- bock beer — heavy dark strong beer
- body mike — a microphone attached to the body
- body-mike — to equip with a body mike: The star was body-miked, but he was still inaudible.
- bodycheck — obstruction of another player
- boghazkoy — a village in N central Turkey: site of the ancient Hittite city of Hattusas.
- bogorodsk — former name of Noginsk.
- bokassa i — original name Jean Bedel Bokassa. 1921–96, president of the Central African Republic (1972–76); emperor of the renamed Central African Empire from 1976 until overthrown in 1979
- bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- bomb rack — a device for carrying bombs in or under the fuselage of an aircraft.
- boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
- bontebuck — bontebok.
- boobquake — a Facebook campaign created to disprove the contention of an Iranian cleric that immodestly dressed women cause earthquakes
- book club — A book club is an organization that offers books at reduced prices to its members.
- book fair — a commercial event at which publishers exhibit and trade books
- book gill — the gill of a horseshoe crab, composed of numerous membranous structures arranged like the leaves of a closed book.
- book into — to reserve a room for (oneself or someone else) at (a hotel)
- book list — a list of books, especially a list of recommended or required readings.
- book lung — the respiratory organ of a spider, scorpion, or other arachnid, composed of thin, membranous structures arranged like the leaves of a book.
- book post — a special system and rate for posting books
- book rest — a support for an open book, usually holding it at a slight angle.
- book tile — a flat, cellular roofing tile having two parallel edges one of which is convex and the other concave, so that a number may be fit together edge to edge between rafters, joists, etc.
- bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
- booked up — If a hotel, restaurant, theatre, or transport service is booked up, it has no rooms, tables, or tickets left for a time or date.
- booklight — a small light that can be clipped onto a book for reading by
- booklouse — any small insect of the order Psocoptera, esp Trogium pulsatorium (common booklouse), a wingless species that feeds on bookbinding paste, etc
- booklover — a person who enjoys reading books.
- bookmaker — A bookmaker is a person whose job is to take your money when you bet and to pay you money if you win.
- bookmarks — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- bookpaper — the paper used in printing books, especially when of superior quality.
- bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
- bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
- bookstack — Usually, bookstacks. stack (def 4).
- bookstall — A bookstall is a long table from which books and magazines are sold, for example at a conference or in a street market.
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- bookstore — A bookstore is a shop where books are sold.