9-letter words containing k, o, b
- boondocks — If you say that someone lives in the boondocks, you mean that they live a long way from any large cities.
- boot disk — (operating system) The magnetic disk (usually a hard disk) from which an operating system kernel is loaded (or "bootstrapped"). This second phase in system start-up is performed by a simple bootstrap loader program held in ROM, possibly configured by data stored in some form of writable non-volatile storage. Some operating systems, notably SunOS and Solaris, can be configured to boot from a network rather than from disk. Such a system can thus run as a diskless workstation.
- 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.
- bootblack — a person whose work is shining shoes and boots
- bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
- bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- boskiness — the quality of being bosky
- boskopoid — of, relating to, or characteristic of Boskop man or the culture or habitat of Boskop man.
- botvinnik — Mikhail Moiseivich (mixaˈil məiˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1911–95, Soviet chess player; world champion (1948–57, 1958–60, 1961–63)
- bow shock — the shock front along which the solar wind encounters a planet's magnetic field.
- boxkeeper — an attendant responsible for theatre boxes
- brainwork — intellectual effort
- break off — If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
- break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- breakover — jump (def 51).
- breakroom — a room in a workplace that is set aside for employees to use during a break from work, as to relax, socialize, or eat.
- brickwork — You can refer to the bricks in the walls of a building as the brickwork.
- broderick — a male given name.
- brokerage — A brokerage or a brokerage firm is a company of brokers.
- brokering — the work of a broker or brokerage
- brookings — Robert Somers [suhm-erz] /ˈsʌm ərz/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- brooklike — resembling a brook
- brooklime — either of two blue-flowered scrophulariaceous trailing plants, Veronica americana of North America or V. beccabunga of Europe and Asia, growing in moist places
- brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
- brookweed — either of two white-flowered primulaceous plants, Samolus valerandi of Europe or S. floribundus of North America, growing in moist places
- brushwork — An artist's brushwork is their way of using their brush to put paint on a canvas and the effect that this has in the picture.
- buck moth — a saturniid moth, Hemileuca maia, having delicate, grayish wings with a white band.
- buckboard — an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
- buckhound — a hound, smaller than a staghound, used for hunting the smaller breeds of deer, esp fallow deer
- 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
- bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
- bush hook — Dialect. a tool with a curved blade and long handle used to cut bushes and undergrowth.
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- buttstock — the part of a gun behind the breech
- byelostok — a city in E Poland.
- casebooks — Plural form of casebook.
- cash-book — a journal in which all cash or cheque receipts and disbursements are recorded
- cashbooks — Plural form of cashbook.
- cellblock — a group of cells in a prison where prisoners are kept
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- check box — square for marking with a tick
- checkbook — a book containing detachable forms for writing checks on a bank
- cheekbone — Your cheekbones are the two bones in your face just below your eyes.
- chokeable — to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
- chokebore — a shotgun bore that becomes narrower towards the muzzle so that the shot is not scattered
- chopblock — butcher-block.