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9-letter words containing o, l, b

  • bolt down — fasten, secure sth
  • bolt hole — a hole in the ground, protected opening in bushes, etc., into which an animal can flee when pursued or frightened.
  • bolt-hole — If you say that someone has a bolt-hole to go to, you mean that there is somewhere that they can go when they want to get away from people that they know.
  • boltzmann — Ludwig (ˈluːtvɪç). 1844–1906, Austrian physicist. He established the principle of the equipartition of energy and developed the kinetic theory of gases with J. C. Maxwell
  • bomb belt — a belt carrying explosives which is worn around the waist by a suicide bomber
  • bombilate — to make a buzzing noise
  • bombshell — A bombshell is a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
  • bondslave — a person held in bondage.
  • bone cell — a cell found in bone in any of its functional states; an osteoblast, osteoclast, or osteocyte.
  • bone idle — very idle; extremely lazy
  • bone meal — Bone meal is a substance made from animal bones which is used as a fertilizer.
  • boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
  • bonilasse — an attractive young woman
  • bonnibell — a pretty girl
  • boobialla — any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Myoporum, esp M. insulare
  • book club — A book club is an organization that offers books at reduced prices to its members.
  • book gill — the gill of a horseshoe crab, composed of numerous membranous structures arranged like the leaves of a closed book.
  • book list — a list of books, especially a list of recommended or required readings.
  • book lung — the respiratory organ of a spider, scorpion, or other arachnid, composed of thin, membranous structures arranged like the leaves of a book.
  • book tile — a flat, cellular roofing tile having two parallel edges one of which is convex and the other concave, so that a number may be fit together edge to edge between rafters, joists, etc.
  • booklight — a small light that can be clipped onto a book for reading by
  • booklouse — any small insect of the order Psocoptera, esp Trogium pulsatorium (common booklouse), a wingless species that feeds on bookbinding paste, etc
  • booklover — a person who enjoys reading books.
  • bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
  • bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
  • bookstall — A bookstall is a long table from which books and magazines are sold, for example at a conference or in a street market.
  • boomingly — in a booming manner
  • boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
  • boot hill — a cemetery of a frontier settlement, especially one in which gunfighters were buried.
  • bootblack — a person whose work is shining shoes and boots
  • bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
  • botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
  • botchedly — in a botched or clumsy manner
  • bottle it — If you say that someone has bottled it, you mean that they have lost their courage at the last moment and have not done something they intended to do.
  • bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
  • bottleful — the amount a bottle will hold
  • botulinal — of or relating to the bacterium Clostridium botulinum
  • botulinum — an anaerobic botulin-secreting bacterium, Clostridium botulinum
  • botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
  • boughless — (of trees) having no boughs
  • boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
  • boulderer — a rock climber
  • boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
  • boundable — able to be bound or limited
  • boundedly — having bounds or limits.
  • boundless — If you describe something as boundless, you mean that there seems to be no end or limit to it.
  • bountiful — A bountiful supply or amount of something pleasant is a large one.
  • bow bells — the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, London: it is said that a true Cockney is born within earshot of these bells
  • bowelless — ruthless, merciless
  • bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
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