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8-letter words containing l, o, b, t

  • blotting — a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper.
  • bloviate — to talk at length, esp in an insubstantial but inflated manner
  • blow out — If you blow out a flame or a candle, you blow at it so that it stops burning.
  • blow-out — (of the wind or air) to be in motion.
  • blowkart — a simple wheeled vehicle such as a go-kart which has been fitted with a sail and is powered by the wind
  • blowtube — a tube used for blowing air or oxygen into a flame to intensify its heat
  • bluecoat — a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
  • boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
  • boatable — able to be carried by boat
  • boatbill — a nocturnal tropical American wading bird, Cochlearius cochlearius, similar to the night herons but with a broad flattened bill: family Ardeidae, order Ciconiiformes
  • boatlift — an evacuation or rescue by boat
  • boatlike — resembling a boat
  • boatload — A boatload of people or things is a lot of people or things that are, or were, in a boat.
  • boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
  • boattail — a large species of blackbird, Quiscalus major, found in coastal areas of the southeastern US
  • bobfloat — a small buoyant float, usually consisting of a quill stuck through a piece of cork
  • bolo tie — a cord, worn as a necktie, with an ornamented fastening for adjusting the neck loop
  • bolthead — the head of a bolt
  • bolthole — a place of escape from danger
  • boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
  • boltless — without any bolts
  • boltlike — resembling a bolt
  • boltonia — any North American plant of the genus Boltonia, having daisy-like flowers with white, violet, or pinkish rays: family Compositae (composites)
  • boltrope — a rope sewn to the foot or luff of a sail to strengthen it
  • bonytail — a fish, Gila elegans, found in the Colorado River, having flaring fins and a thin caudal peduncle.
  • bootable — containing software used to boot a computer
  • bootheel — an area of SE Missouri where the Missouri-Arkansas border dips southward forming a rectangular-shaped extension of the state.
  • bootlace — A bootlace is a long thin cord which is used to fasten a boot.
  • bootlast — a foot-shaped piece of wood or metal inserted into a boot or shoe to help it keep its shape
  • bootless — of little or no use; vain; fruitless
  • bootlick — to seek favour by servile or ingratiating behaviour towards (someone, esp someone in authority); toady
  • bothwell — Earl of, title of James Hepburn. 1535–78, Scottish nobleman; third husband of Mary Queen of Scots. He is generally considered to have instigated the murder of Darnley (1567)
  • bottle-o — a dealer in empty bottles
  • botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
  • bowl out — In a sport such as cricket, if a team is bowled out, each player in that team has had to stop batting and leave the pitch and there is nobody left to bat.
  • box bolt — a rod-shaped bolt of rectangular section for fastening a door or the like, attached to the inside of the door at the edge and sliding into a socket on the frame.
  • box plot — a graphic representation of a distribution by a rectangle, the ends of which mark the maximum and minimum values, and in which the median and first and third quartiles are marked by lines parallel to the ends.
  • bristols — a woman's breasts
  • bro talk — Māori English
  • brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
  • brooklet — a small brook
  • bullboat — a lightweight, shallow-draft boat made of hides stretched over a wooden frame and used by Plains Indians.
  • bullpout — a type of fish
  • bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
  • bush lot — a tract of timberland
  • butthole — anus.
  • clonebot — (chat)   (Or "clone") A bot meant to replicate itself en masse on a talk network (generally IRC). A bot appears on the network as several agents, and then carries out some task, typically that of flooding another user. Compare ghost.
  • clubfoot — If someone has a clubfoot, they are born with a badly twisted foot.
  • clubroot — a disease of cabbages and related plants, caused by the fungus Plasmodiophora brassicae, in which the roots become thickened and distorted
  • cobaltic — of or containing cobalt, esp in the trivalent state
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