9-letter words containing o, b, s, t
- book post — a special system and rate for posting books
- book rest — a support for an open book, usually holding it at a slight angle.
- bookstack — Usually, bookstacks. stack (def 4).
- bookstall — A bookstall is a long table from which books and magazines are sold, for example at a conference or in a street market.
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- bookstore — A bookstore is a shop where books are sold.
- boom shot — a shot taken by a camera on a boom.
- boom-bust — relating to a supposed cycle in which periods of prosperity and growth alternate with periods of recession
- boot disk — (operating system) The magnetic disk (usually a hard disk) from which an operating system kernel is loaded (or "bootstrapped"). This second phase in system start-up is performed by a simple bootstrap loader program held in ROM, possibly configured by data stored in some form of writable non-volatile storage. Some operating systems, notably SunOS and Solaris, can be configured to boot from a network rather than from disk. Such a system can thus run as a diskless workstation.
- boot-tops — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
- bootstrap — If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone, using very few resources.
- bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
- bostonian — a person from Boston
- botmaster — (chat) The owner of a bot.
- botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
- bounteous — giving freely; generous
- bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
- box stall — a small stall with four walls for holding a horse
- box stoop — a high stoop reached by a flight or flights of steps alongside the building front.
- box store — a retail store that sells a limited assortment of basic grocery items, often, as at a warehouse, displayed in their original cartons in order to lower costs and prices.
- boy scout — The Boy Scouts is an organization for boys which teaches them discipline and practical skills.
- boyshorts — women's underpants which resemble close-fitting shorts, sitting below the waist and stretching to the tops of the legs
- brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
- brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
- broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
- bronxites — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
- bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
- bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
- burrstone — buhrstone
- burst edo — Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
- burst out — If someone bursts out laughing, crying, or making another noise, they suddenly start making that noise. You can also say that a noise bursts out.
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- buttstock — the part of a gun behind the breech
- byelostok — a city in E Poland.
- catacombs — an underground burial place, esp the galleries at Rome, consisting of tunnels with vaults or niches leading off them for tombs
- cenobites — Plural form of cenobite.
- cobaltous — of or containing cobalt in the divalent state
- cockboats — Plural form of cockboat.
- cohobates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohobate.
- combaters — Plural form of combater.
- combusted — Simple past tense and past participle of combust.
- combustor — the combustion system of a jet engine or ramjet, comprising the combustion chamber, the fuel injection apparatus, and the igniter
- constable — In Britain and some other countries, a constable is a police officer of the lowest rank.
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- crossbite — a dental condition in which the lower teeth are in front of the upper teeth
- crosstabs — Simple language for statistical analysis of tabular data. "User's Manual for the CROSSTABS System", Cambridge Computer Assoc (Feb 1977).