8-letter words containing o, b, t, a
- boracite — a white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate and chloride in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Mg3ClB7O13
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- bot army — a group of computers, infected with malign programs via the internet, that can be controlled remotely to, for example, mount denial-of-service attacks
- botanica — a shop that sells herbs, charms, and other items associated with alternative medicine or magic
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- botanize — to collect or study plants
- bothyman — a person who lives in a bothy
- botsares — Markos [Greek mahr-kaws] /Greek ˈmɑr kɔs/ (Show IPA), Bozzaris, Marco.
- botswana — a republic in southern Africa: established as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland in 1885 as a defence against the Boers; became an independent state within the Commonwealth in 1966; consists mostly of a plateau averaging 1000 m (3300 ft), with the extensive Okavango swamps in the northwest and the Kalahari Desert in the southwest. Languages: English and Tswana. Religion: animist majority. Currency: pula. Capital: Gaborone. Pop: 2 127 825 (2013 est). Area: about 570 000 sq km (220 000 sq miles)
- bouffant — A bouffant hairstyle is one in which your hair is high and full.
- box coat — a plain short coat that hangs loosely from the shoulders
- box seat — a seat in a theatre box
- brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
- breakout — If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison.
- brentano — Clemens (Maria) (ˈkleːmənz). 1778–1842, German romantic poet and compiler of fairy stories and folk songs esp (with Achim von Arnim) the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1805–08)
- bro talk — Māori English
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
- buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
- bullboat — a lightweight, shallow-draft boat made of hides stretched over a wooden frame and used by Plains Indians.
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- 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 boat — a boat sent out by a dealer to purchase the catches of fishing vessels.
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabotage — coastal navigation or shipping, esp within the borders of one country
- car boot — the place at the back of a car for putting luggage in
- catacomb — Catacombs are ancient underground passages and rooms, especially under a city, where people used to be buried.
- catboats — Plural form of catboat.
- cibation — the act of feeding
- cobaltic — of or containing cobalt, esp in the trivalent state
- cockboat — any small boat
- cohabits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohabit.
- cohobate — to redistil (a distillate), esp by allowing it to mingle with the remaining matter
- combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combater — One who combats.
- corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
- costable — For which a monetary cost may be assessed.
- cotabato — a city on W central Mindanao, in the S Philippines.
- cottabus — (in ancient Greece) a game that was popular among young men at drinking parties and which involved throwing wine into a vessel while uttering the name of a beloved
- crowbait — an emaciated, worn-out horse or cow.
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- datebook — a notebook in which a person keeps a personal record of daily events, appointments, etc
- deadbolt — a locking bolt that is turned by the key rather than a spring
- debation — Debating.
- dot ball — a ball from which a run is not scored
- downbeat — the downward stroke of a conductor's arm or baton indicating the first or accented beat of a measure.
- factbook — A book of facts.
- faltboat — a small boat having a collapsible wooden frame covered with waterproof cloth or plastic.
- fat body — a diffuse tissue of insects, having numerous functions including food storage, metabolism, and storage of wastes and in some insects modified as a light-producing organ.