9-letter words containing o, b
- backboned — With a strong spine.
- backbones — Plural form of backbone.
- backcloth — A backcloth is a large piece of cloth, often with scenery or buildings painted on it, that is hung at the back of a stage while a play is being performed.
- backcourt — In sports such tennis and badminton, the backcourt is the section of each side of the court that is furthest from the net. In basketball, the backcourt is the rear part of the court, where the defense plays. You can also use backcourt to refer to the members of a team who play mainly in this part of the court.
- backcross — to mate (a hybrid of the first generation) with one of its parents
- backdowns — Plural form of backdown.
- backdrops — Plural form of backdrop.
- backflows — Plural form of backflow.
- backhouse — an outdoor privy; outhouse
- backorder — Commerce. an order or part of an order waiting to be filled.
- backroads — Plural form of backroad.
- backronym — an existing word turned into an acronym by creating an apt phrase whose initial letters match the word, as to help remember it or offer a theory of its origin. For example, rap has been said to be a backronym of “rhythm and poetry.”.
- backrooms — Plural form of backroom.
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- backshore — the area of a beach above the usual high tide mark
- backsolve — To determine the inputs that would lead to a given output in a mathematical system.
- backstops — Plural form of backstop.
- backstory — the events which take place before, and which help to bring about, the events portrayed in a film
- backsword — a person who uses the backsword
- backwoods — If you refer to an area as the backwoods, you mean that it is a long way from large towns and is isolated from modern life.
- backwords — Plural form of backword.
- bacon fat — fat made by rendering bacon
- bacterio- — indicating bacteria or an action or condition relating to or characteristic of bacteria
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- bad actor — a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
- bad blood — If you say that there is bad blood between people, you mean that they have argued about something and dislike each other.
- bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
- badly off — If you are badly off, you are in a bad situation.
- badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- bahookies — Plural form of bahookie.
- baignoire — a theatre box on the lowest level
- bail bond — a surety bond (money or property) offered or deposited by a defendant or other persons to ensure the defendant's appearance at trial
- bajillion — an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount
- bakeboard — a board on which bread dough is rolled and kneaded
- bakegoods — baked goods, as bread, cakes, or pies.
- bakehouse — a building or room to bake in; bakery.
- bakeshops — Plural form of bakeshop.
- bakestone — a flat stone placed in or near an oven or fire, for baking cakes on
- bakuchiol — A meroterpene phenol, extracted from seeds of Psoralea corylifolia, that shows antimicrobial activity.
- balconied — That has a balcony attached.
- balconies — Plural form of balcony.
- baldmoney — Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family.
- baleboste — a capable, efficient housewife, especially a traditional Jewish one, devoted to maintaining a well-run home.
- ball cock — a device for regulating the flow of a liquid into a tank, cistern, etc, consisting of a floating ball mounted at one end of an arm and a valve on the other end that opens and closes as the ball falls and rises with the water level in the cistern
- ball foot — a ball-like turned foot, used especially in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- ballcocks — Plural form of ballcock.
- ballonets — Plural form of ballonet.
- ballooned — Simple past tense and past participle of balloon.