9-letter words containing o, b, t
- tokyo bay — an inlet of the Pacific, in SE Honshu Island of Japan. 30 miles (48 km) long; 20 miles (32 km) wide.
- tolerable — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
- tolerably — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
- tollbooth — a booth, as at a bridge or the entrance to a toll road, where a toll is collected.
- tom thumb — a diminutive hero of folk tales.
- tombigbee — a river flowing S through NE Mississippi and SW Alabama to the Mobile River. 525 miles (845 km) long.
- tomboyish — an energetic, sometimes boisterous girl whose behavior and pursuits, especially in games and sports, are considered more typical of boys than of girls.
- tombstone — a stone marker, usually inscribed, on a tomb or grave.
- tommy bar — a short bar used as a lever to provide torque for tightening a box spanner or key
- tonbridge — a market town in SE England, in SW Kent on the River Medway. Pop: 35 833 (2001)
- toothcomb — a comb with fine teeth
- toowoomba — a city in SE Queensland, in E Australia.
- top boots — high boots, often with decorative or contrasting upper sections
- top brass — brass (def 5).
- torbanite — Petrology. a dark-brown oil shale containing a large amount of carbonaceous matter.
- torchable — able to be torched or set alight
- touchable — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- touchback — a play in which the ball is downed after having been kicked into the end zone by the opposing team or having been recovered or intercepted there, or in which it has been kicked beyond the end zone. Compare safety (def 6a).
- trebbiano — a type of grape and vine cultivated in Italy for making wine (by the same name)
- trebizond — a medieval empire in NE Asia Minor 1204–1461.
- tribology — the study of the effects of friction on moving machine parts and of methods, as lubrication, of obviating them.
- trilobate — having three lobes.
- trilobite — any marine arthropod of the extinct class Trilobita, from the Paleozoic Era, having a flattened, oval body varying in length from 1 inch (2.5 cm) or less to 2 feet (61 cm).
- troubling — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- troublous — characterized by trouble; unsettled: troublous times.
- true-born — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- tube foot — one of numerous small, tubular processes on the ventral body surface of most echinoderms, used for locomotion and grasping.
- tube sock — a casual sock that is not shaped at the heel.
- tube worm — any of various marine worms that produce and inhabit a tube, some being adapted to a hydrothermal vent environment.
- tubectomy — salpingectomy.
- tubesnout — a slender, marine fish, Aulorhynchus flavidus, inhabiting coastal waters from southern California to Alaska, having a long, tubelike snout.
- tubicolar — living in a self-constructed tube
- tubuphone — an instrument resembling a glockenspiel but with metal tubes instead of bars.
- tumble to — to fall helplessly down, end over end, as by losing one's footing, support, or equilibrium; plunge headlong: to tumble down the stairs.
- turboprop — turbo-propeller engine.
- turbopump — a turbine-driven pump, as one used to feed propellant to a rocket engine.
- turnabout — the act of turning in a different or opposite direction.
- umberto i — (Umberto I) 1844–1900, king of Italy 1878–1900.
- un-robust — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- unaborted — (esp of a baby or pregnancy) not aborted or ended
- unbigoted — utterly intolerant of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.
- unblotted — free from discredit; without a blemish or stain
- undoubted — not called in question; accepted as beyond doubt; undisputed.
- unnotable — worthy of note or notice; noteworthy: a notable success; a notable theory.
- unpotable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
- verbosity — the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity.
- vibration — the act of vibrating.
- vibratory — capable of or producing vibration.
- walkabout — Chiefly British. a walking tour. an informal public stroll taken by members of the royal family or by a political figure for the purpose of greeting and being seen by the public.
- warbonnet — Alternative spelling of war bonnet.