8-letter words containing o, b, t, a
- fireboat — a powered vessel equipped to fight fires on boats, docks, shores, etc.
- flatboat — a large, flat-bottomed boat for use in shallow water, especially on rivers.
- flyboats — Plural form of flyboat.
- foldboat — faltboat.
- football — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- footbath — a bath for soothing or cleaning the feet.
- gadabout — a person who moves about restlessly or aimlessly, especially from one social activity to another.
- go about — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- gunboats — a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow.
- hackbolt — a European seabird, Puffinus major
- hardboot — a horse-racing enthusiast.
- hatboxes — Plural form of hatbox.
- hautbois — hautboy.
- hautboys — Plural form of hautboy.
- hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
- hoofbeat — the sound made by an animal's hoof in walking, running, etc.
- hylobate — Any of the genus Hylobates of gibbons.
- iceboats — Plural form of iceboat.
- isobaths — Plural form of isobath.
- jaboatao — a city in E Brazil, W of Recife.
- jackboot — a sturdy leather boot reaching up over the knee, worn especially by soldiers.
- jacobite — a partisan or adherent of James II of England after his overthrow (1688), or of the Stuarts.
- jet boat — a small, propellerless boat powered by an engine that ejects water for its thrust.
- jobation — an extensive rebuke; scolding
- johnboat — a light, square-ended, flat-bottomed skiff, used in shallow water.
- kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
- keelboat — a roughly built, shallow freight boat, having a keel to permit sailing into the wind.
- lab coat — long white garment worn in laboratory
- laborist — A physician who aids labor and delivery but does not provide prenatal care.
- laborite — a member of a political party promoting the interests of labor.
- 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.
- lag bolt — lag screw
- layabout — a lazy or idle person; loafer.
- libation — a pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of a deity.
- libatory — relating to libation
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- lifeboat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lobation — lobate formation.
- lobulate — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
- longboat — (formerly) the largest boat carried by a sailing ship.
- mableton — a town in NW Georgia.
- mailboat — a boat for transporting mail.
- manitoba — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.
- marabout — Islam. a hermit or holy man, especially in N Africa, often wielding political power and credited with supernatural powers. the tomb or shrine of such a man.
- matchbox — a small box, usually of cardboard, for matches.
- metablog — (neologism, Internet) a blog about blogs.
- metabola — (in the plural, entomology) Insects that metamorphose.
- metabole — Alternative spelling of metabola.
- metaboly — the ability of some cells, esp protozoans, to alter their shape
- microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.