8-letter words containing n, b, t
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- bunodont — (of the teeth of certain mammals) having cusps that are separate and rounded
- buntline — one of several lines fastened to the foot of a square sail for hauling it up to the yard when furling
- burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
- burinist — a person who works with a burin
- burn out — If a fire burns itself out, it stops burning because there is nothing left to burn.
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.
- but then — You use but then before a remark which suggests that what you have just said should not be regarded as surprising.
- butanone — a colourless soluble flammable liquid used mainly as a solvent for resins, as a paint remover, and in lacquers, cements, and adhesives. Formula: CH3COC2H5
- butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
- butt end — butt1 (defs 1, 2).
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- butylene — any of four alkenes, including isobutylene, having the same formula, C4H8, but differing in properties and structure
- buy into — If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
- by turns — You can use by turns to indicate that someone has two particular emotions or qualities, one after the other.
- cabernet — a type of grape
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- cabstand — a taxi rank
- cenobite — a member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
- centibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/100 (0.01) bar or 10,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- cibation — the act of feeding
- 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.
- contrib. — contributor
- corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
- cribnote — crib (def 5a).
- databank — a store of a large amount of information, esp in a form that can be handled by a computer
- debating — the activity of taking part in debates
- debation — Debating.
- debiting — the recording or an entry of debt in an account.
- debutant — a person who is making a first appearance in a particular capacity, such as a sportsperson playing in a first game for a team
- debuting — a first public appearance on a stage, on television, etc.
- dingbats — Slang. an eccentric, silly, or empty-headed person.
- doubting — Present participle of doubt.
- downbeat — the downward stroke of a conductor's arm or baton indicating the first or accented beat of a measure.
- downbent — Bent downward.
- dubonnet — (lowercase) a deep purple-red color.
- dustbins — Plural form of dustbin.
- ebeniste — cabinetmaker
- ecbatana — an ancient country in W Asia, S of the Caspian Sea, corresponding generally to NW Iran. Capital: Ecbatana.
- endebted — Obsolete form of indebted.
- entameba — any of a genus (Entamoeba) of amoebas parasitic in vertebrates, esp. a species (E. histolytica) causing amoebic dysentery
- entombed — Simple past tense and past participle of entomb.
- excubant — keeping watch; on guard
- fan belt — (in automotive vehicles) a belt, driven by the crankshaft of an engine, that turns a fan for drawing cooling air through the radiator.
- frobnitz — /frob'nits/, plural "frobnitzem" /frob'nit-zm/ or "frobni" /frob'ni:/ (TMRC) An unspecified physical object, a widget. Also refers to electronic black boxes. This rare form is usually abbreviated to "frotz", or more commonly to frob. Also used are "frobnule" (/frob'n[y]ool/) and "frobule" (/frob'yool/). Starting perhaps in 1979, "frobozz" /fr*-boz'/ (plural: "frobbotzim" /fr*-bot'zm/) has also become very popular, largely through its exposure as a name via Zork. These variants can also be applied to nonphysical objects, such as data structures. Pete Samson, compiler of the original TMRC lexicon, adds,q "Under the TMRC (railway) layout were many storage boxes, managed (in 1958) by David R. Sawyer. Several had fanciful designations written on them, such as "Frobnitz Coil Oil". Perhaps DRS intended Frobnitz to be a proper name, but the name was quickly taken for the thing". This was almost certainly the origin of the term.
- gunboats — a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow.
- habitant — an inhabitant.