9-letter words containing o, b, t, r
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- dreamboat — a highly attractive or desirable person.
- driftbolt — Also called driftpin. a spike having a round shank and used for fastening heavy timbers together.
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.
- dunbarton — former county of W Scotland
- earthborn — born on or sprung from the earth; of earthly origin.
- ebriosity — the state of being regularly drunk
- elaborate — ornate, showy
- embrocate — (medicine, transitive) To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.
- embryotic — Embryonic.
- exhibitor — A person who displays works of art or other items of interest at an exhibition.
- exprobate — (obsolete) To exprobrate.
- extrabold — a font with very bold characters
- fabulator — a person who fabulates, a story-teller
- ferryboat — a boat used to transport passengers, vehicles, etc., across a river or the like.
- fibrocyte — an inactive fibroblast
- fibrolite — sillimanite.
- firstborn — first in the order of birth; eldest.
- footboard — a board or small platform on which to support the foot or feet.
- footbrake — a brake operated by applying pressure to a foot pedal
- four bits — 50 cents.
- freebooty — plunder; loot; spoils.
- fretboard — a fingerboard with frets, as on a guitar.
- frithborh — (from Old English) a frankpledge
- frostbelt — Snowbelt.
- frostbite — injury to any part of the body after excessive exposure to extreme cold, sometimes progressing from initial redness and tingling to gangrene.
- gastrobot — a robot that is able to supply itself with sugar, which it uses as a source of fuel
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- globetrot — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
- gobstruck — (slang, chiefly, UK) gobsmacked; astonished; astounded.
- grout box — a conical object of expanded metal, buried in poured concrete with an anchor bolt held in its inner and smaller end.
- hard boot — (operating system) A boot which resets the entire system. The phrase has connations of hostility toward, or frustration with, the computer being booted. For example, "I'll have to hard boot this losing Sun", or "I recommend booting it hard". Hard boots are often performed with a power cycle. Contrast soft boot. See also cold boot and reboot
- hellbroth — a magical broth prepared for an evil purpose, as in black magic.
- herborist — herbalist.
- hereabout — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- homebirth — Childbirth taking place at home, rather than in a hospital.
- iceboater — a person who races iceboats, especially as a hobby or in competition.
- improbity — lack of honesty or moral scruples.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- inhabitor — One who inhabits.
- inhibitor — a person or thing that inhibits.
- interbond — (chemistry) Between bonds.
- jobcentre — Alternative spelling of Jobcentre.
- jobstears — (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
- jobsworth — (chiefly, British) A minor worker who refuses to be flexible in the application of rules to help a client or customer.
- joint bar — one of a pair of bars used to join two rails longitudinally.
- jumbotron — A very large video screen, typically used in a stadium or concert venue to show close-up shots.
- kerbstone — one of the stones, or a range of stones, forming a curb, as along a street.
- kiteboard — A specialized light weight wakeboard used for kiteboarding.