9-letter words containing k, o, t
- 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.
- booklight — a small light that can be clipped onto a book for reading by
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- botvinnik — Mikhail Moiseivich (mixaˈil məiˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1911–95, Soviet chess player; world champion (1948–57, 1958–60, 1961–63)
- break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
- 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
- buttstock — the part of a gun behind the breech
- byelostok — a city in E Poland.
- cant hook — a heavy wooden lever with a blunt tip and a hinged hook near the end: used by lumbermen in handling logs
- cardstock — paper stock stiff enough for the printing of business cards and similar uses.
- 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.
- chalk out — to outline (a plan, scheme, etc); sketch
- check out — When you check out of a hotel or clinic where you have been staying, or if someone checks you out, you pay the bill and leave.
- checkouts — Plural form of checkout.
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chopstick — Chopsticks are a pair of thin sticks which people in China and the Far East use to eat their food.
- chuck out — If you chuck something out, you throw it away, because you do not need it or cannot use it.
- chukotian — a group of genetically related languages spoken on the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas in eastern Siberia, including Chukchi, Kamchadal, and Koryak.
- clock out — Clock out means the same as clock off.
- coatracks — Plural form of coatrack.
- cockateel — Archaic form of cockatiel.
- cockatiel — A cockatiel is a bird similar to a cockatoo that is often kept as a pet.
- cockatoos — Plural form of cockatoo.
- cockboats — Plural form of cockboat.
- cockcroft — Sir John Douglas. 1897–1967, English nuclear physicist. With E. T. S. Walton, he produced the first artificial transmutation of an atomic nucleus (1932) and shared the Nobel prize for physics 1951
- cockfight — a fight between two gamecocks fitted with sharp metal spurs
- cocklofts — Plural form of cockloft.
- cockmatch — a cockfight
- cocksfoot — a perennial Eurasian grass, Dactylis glomerata, cultivated as a pasture grass in North America and South Africa
- cocktails — Plural form of cocktail.
- con trick — swindle
- contakion — kontakion.
- cookstove — a stove for cooking
- cookstown — a district of central Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 33 387 (2003 est). Area: 622 sq km (240 sq miles)
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- cork tree — the cork oak, Quercus suber, of the beech family.
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
- cornstick — a corn muffin baked in the form of a small ear of corn.