9-letter words containing o, b, t
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- geobotany — phytogeography.
- get about — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- ghostball — (baseball) A type of pitch; the knuckleball.
- gibbosity — the state of being gibbous.
- gibeonite — one of the inhabitants of Gibeon, who were condemned by Joshua to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for the Israelites. Josh. 9.
- globalist — the attitude or policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of individual nations.
- globesity — obesity as affecting a very large percentage of the global population: the public-health crisis of globesity.
- globetrot — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
- globulite — (mineral) A rudimentary spherical form of crystallite.
- go to bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- 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.
- guestbook — A book in which visitors to a particular place may write their names, addresses, and remarks.
- half boot — a boot reaching about halfway to the knee.
- half-boot — a boot reaching about halfway to the knee.
- halobiont — an organism that thrives in a saline environment.
- 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
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- hellbroth — a magical broth prepared for an evil purpose, as in black magic.
- hemoblast — hematoblast.
- herborist — herbalist.
- hereabout — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- hip boots — waders: thigh-high rubber boots
- hobbitses — (humorous, nonstandard) Plural form of hobbit.
- hobbyists — Plural form of hobbyist.
- 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.
- homebuilt — Constructed at home, rather than being obtained from a manufacturer etc.
- hoofbeats — Plural form of hoofbeat.
- hook bolt — a bolt bent in a hooklike form at one end and threaded for a nut at the other.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- how about — introducing a suggestion
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- iceboater — a person who races iceboats, especially as a hobby or in competition.
- idioblast — a cell that differs greatly from the surrounding cells or tissue.
- idiot box — a television set; television.
- impotable — (rare) Not drinkable.
- 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.
- intombing — Present participle of intomb.
- isobathic — having the same depth.
- isobutane — a colorless, flammable gas, C 4 H 10 , used as a fuel, as a refrigerant, and in the manufacture of gasoline by alkylation.
- isobutene — (organic compound) The unsaturated hydrocarbon methylpropene, (CH3)2C=CH2; used in the manufacture of polybutene and butyl rubber.
- jackboots — Plural form of jackboot.
- jacobsite — a rare magnetic mineral, manganese iron oxide, MnFe 2 O 4 , similar to magnetite.