8-letter words containing n, o, b, t
- burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
- burn out — If a fire burns itself out, it stops burning because there is nothing left to burn.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- 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
- 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.
- cenobite — a member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
- 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).
- debation — Debating.
- 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.
- entombed — Simple past tense and past participle of entomb.
- 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.
- hunt box — a hunting lodge or house near or in a hunting area for use during the hunting season.
- in doubt — uncertain
- ink blot — a stain on paper, made by ink
- inkblots — Plural form of inkblot.
- intombed — Simple past tense and past participle of intomb.
- isobront — a line on a weather map or chart connecting various points where a given phase of thunderstorm activity occurred simultaneously.
- jetborne — carried by jet aircraft.
- job hunt — search for employment
- job-hunt — to seek employment; look for a job.
- jobation — an extensive rebuke; scolding
- johnboat — a light, square-ended, flat-bottomed skiff, used in shallow water.
- kingbolt — a vertical bolt connecting the body of a vehicle with the fore axle, the body of a railroad car with a truck, etc.
- knowbots — Plural form of knowbot.
- labornet — An IGC network serving groups, unions and labour advocates interested in information sharing and collaboration with the intent of enhancing the human rights and economic justice of workers. Issues covered include workplace and community health and safety issues, trade issues and international union solidarity and collaboration.
- libation — a pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of a deity.
- lobation — lobate formation.
- longboat — (formerly) the largest boat carried by a sailing ship.
- mableton — a town in NW Georgia.
- manitoba — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.
- monobath — a developer and fixer combined in the same solution.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- nanobots — Plural form of nanobot.
- nanotube — A cylindrical molecule of a fullerene.
- neoblast — any large and undifferentiated stem cell in certain worms, esp planarian worms, involved in regeneration and repair
- nest box — a box in a henhouse in which domestic chickens lay eggs
- netrebko — Anna. born 1971, Russian operatic soprano
- no doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- nobelist — a person who is awarded a Nobel prize.
- nobility — the noble class or the body of nobles in a country.
- none but — None but means only.
- northumb — Northumberland