9-letter words containing n, o, r, t
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- attrition — Attrition is a process in which you steadily reduce the strength of an enemy by continually attacking them.
- augmentor — a person or thing that augments.
- aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- autocrine — relating to self-stimulation, through the production of a factor and a specific receptor for it
- ayr stone — a fine-grained stone used for polishing marble and as a whetstone.
- aztreonam — A synthetic monobactam originally isolated from Chromobacterium violaceum, similar in action to penicillin.
- barberton — a city in NE Ohio.
- barbitone — a long-acting barbiturate used medicinally, usually in the form of the sodium salt, as a sedative or hypnotic
- barbotine — a type of clay paste used in making decorated pottery
- baritonal — of or relating to a baritone
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barnstorm — When people such as politicians or performers barnstorm, they travel around the country making speeches or giving shows.
- baronetcy — the rank, position, or patent of a baronet
- bartokian — characteristic of the music of Béla Bartók: driving, percussive, Bartokian rhythm.
- beaverton — a town in NW Oregon.
- befortune — to happen, befall, come about
- bemonster — to treat as a monster
- bertillon — Alphonse [al-fons,, -fonz;; French al-fawns] /ˈæl fɒns,, -fɒnz;; French alˈfɔ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1853–1914, French anthropologist: devised Bertillon system.
- beta iron — a nonmagnetic allotrope of pure iron stable between 770°C and 910°C
- betterton — Thomas, 1635?–1710, English actor and dramatist.
- binturong — an arboreal SE Asian viverrine mammal, Arctictis binturong, closely related to the palm civets but larger and having long shaggy black hair
- bioparent — a biological parent
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- bonetired — completely exhausted
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- bow front — swell front.
- bow-front — having a front with a convex curve
- bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
- bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
- bradenton — a city in W Florida.
- brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
- brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
- bremerton — a city in W Washington, on Puget Sound: navy yard.
- brentwood — a residential town in SE England, in SW Essex near London. Pop: 47 593 (2001)
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
- brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
- bring out — When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
- brittonic — Brythonic
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- bronxites — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
- brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
- brown fat — tissue composed of a type of fat cell that dissipates as heat most of the energy released when food is oxidized; brown adipose tissue. It is present in hibernating animals and human babies and is thought to be important in adult weight control
- brown out — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
- brown rat — a common brownish rat, Rattus norvegicus: a serious pest in all parts of the world
- brown rot — a disease of apples, peaches, etc, caused by fungi of the genus Sclerotinia and characterized by yellowish-brown masses of spores on the plant surface