9-letter words containing n, b, t
- tinderbox — a box for holding tinder, usually fitted with a flint and steel.
- titanoboa — a genus of giant prehistoric snake of the Palaeocene epoch, having a body length exceeding 12 metres
- titubancy — staggering or stumbling
- tobin tax — a proposed tax on foreign-exchange transactions intended to discourage destabilizing speculation while also raising large revenues that could be channelled to the developing world
- tombstone — a stone marker, usually inscribed, on a tomb or grave.
- tonbridge — a market town in SE England, in SW Kent on the River Medway. Pop: 35 833 (2001)
- torbanite — Petrology. a dark-brown oil shale containing a large amount of carbonaceous matter.
- trainable — capable of being trained.
- trainband — a company of trained militia organized in London and elsewhere in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
- trebbiano — a type of grape and vine cultivated in Italy for making wine (by the same name)
- trebizond — a medieval empire in NE Asia Minor 1204–1461.
- treblinka — a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, near Warsaw.
- tremblant — (of jewels) set in such a way that they shake when the wearer moves
- trembling — to shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear, excitement, weakness, or cold; quake; quiver.
- tribesman — a member of a tribe.
- tribesmen — a member of a tribe.
- tribunate — the office of tribune.
- troubling — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- true-born — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- tubesnout — a slender, marine fish, Aulorhynchus flavidus, inhabiting coastal waters from southern California to Alaska, having a long, tubelike snout.
- tubuphone — an instrument resembling a glockenspiel but with metal tubes instead of bars.
- turbinate — Also, turbinated. having the shape of an inverted cone; scroll-like; whorled; spiraled.
- turbulent — being in a state of agitation or tumult; disturbed: turbulent feelings or emotions.
- turn back — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turnabout — the act of turning in a different or opposite direction.
- turntable — the rotating disk that spins the record on a phonograph.
- twin beds — matching single beds in a bedroom or hotel room
- twin bill — a doubleheader, as in baseball.
- twinberry — the partridgeberry, Mitchella repens.
- ubiquitin — a small protein, present in all eukaryotic cells, that participates in the destruction of defective proteins and in the synthesis of new proteins.
- un-robust — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- unabating — to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish: to abate a tax; to abate one's enthusiasm.
- unabetted — without assistance or encouragement
- unaborted — (esp of a baby or pregnancy) not aborted or ended
- unactable — (of a play, role, etc) not able to be acted or dramatized
- unbaptize — to remove the effects of baptism
- unbigoted — utterly intolerant of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.
- unblotted — free from discredit; without a blemish or stain
- unblunted — not blunted or made dull
- undatable — not able to be dated
- undebated — uncontested
- underbite — occlusion in which the lower incisor teeth overlap the upper.
- undoubted — not called in question; accepted as beyond doubt; undisputed.
- uneatable — edible.
- unnotable — worthy of note or notice; noteworthy: a notable success; a notable theory.
- unpotable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
- unrebated — not refunded or rebated
- unsatable — not able to be satisfied
- unsubject — not subject (usually to); not subjected
- untamable — able to be tamed.