8-letter words containing n, b, t
- tent bed — a field bed having a canopy in the form of a tent.
- terebene — a mixture of terpenes that occurs as a colorless liquid, used in medicine chiefly as an expectorant.
- test ban — an agreement by nations producing nuclear weapons to refrain from testing them in the atmosphere.
- thebaine — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 19 H 21 NO 3 , present in opium in small quantities, but having a strychninelike rather than a narcotic effect.
- thinglab — A simulation system written in Smalltalk-80. It solves constraints using value inference. Version: ThingLab II.
- thonburi — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- thrombin — an enzyme of the blood plasma that catalyzes the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, the last step of the blood clotting process.
- thumbing — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbkin — thumbscrew (def 2).
- thumbnut — wing nut.
- tiberian — of or relating to the emperor Tiberius.
- titubant — staggering
- tjirebon — a seaport on N Java, in S central Indonesia.
- toboggan — a long, narrow, flat-bottomed sled made of a thin board curved upward and backward at the front, often with low handrails on the sides, used especially in the sport of coasting over snow or ice.
- totleben — Franz Eduard Ivanovich [frahnts e-doo-ahrt ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /ˈfrɑnts ɛ duˈɑrt iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Count, 1818–84, Russian military engineer and general.
- trebling — threefold; triple.
- tri-band — of or relating to mobile telephones that can operate on three GSM frequency bands
- tribunal — a court of justice.
- trombone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)
- trueborn — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- tube pan — a circular cake pan having a hollow cone-shaped centerpiece: used for baking ring-shaped cakes.
- tubenose — tubesnout.
- tubingen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, SW Germany, between the Neckar and Ammer rivers: university.
- tumbling — an act of tumbling or falling.
- tunbelly — a large round belly
- turbaned — a man's headdress worn chiefly by Muslims in southern Asia, consisting of a long cloth of silk, linen, cotton, etc., wound either about a cap or directly around the head.
- turbinal — turbinate.
- turbined — having or passing through a turbine or turbines
- turbofan — a jet engine having a large impeller that takes in air, part of which is used in combustion of fuel, the remainder being mixed with the products of combustion to form a low-velocity exhaust jet.
- turnable — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turnback — a part of a garment or similar item that is folded or turned back
- turnbull — Malcolm Bligh. born 1954, Australian Liberal politician; prime minister from 2015
- twin bed — a twin-size bed, especially one of a matching pair in a bedroom; single bed.
- twin-tub — a type of washing machine that has two revolving drums, one for washing and the other for spin-drying
- twinborn — born at the same birth.
- ubi sunt — a poetic motif emphasizing the transitory nature of youth, life, and beauty, found especially in medieval Latin poems.
- umbonate — having an umbo or projecting boss.
- unabated — with undiminished force, power, or vigor.
- unbaited — (of a trap) not baited or filled with bait
- unbasted — (of a garment) not basted; not sewn loosely together
- unbathed — not bathed; unwashed
- unbeaten — not struck, pounded, or whipped: unbeaten eggs.
- unbelted — to remove the belt from.
- unbereft — not bereft, deprived of, or taken from
- unbitted — not bitted or bridled.
- unbitten — a past participle of bite.
- unbitter — not bitter; not having or expressing bitterness
- unbolted — not sifted, as grain.
- unbonnet — to uncover the head, as in respect.
- unbottle — to remove from or allow out of a bottle; let loose; release