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9-letter words containing o, n, a, t

  • babington — Anthony 1561–86, English conspirator, executed for organizing an unsuccessful plot (1586) to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne
  • bacon fat — fat made by rendering bacon
  • 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.
  • bakestone — a flat stone placed in or near an oven or fire, for baking cakes on
  • ballonets — Plural form of ballonet.
  • balloting — voting in an election
  • ballotini — small glass beads used in reflective paints
  • ballpoint — A ballpoint or a ballpoint pen is a pen with a very small metal ball at the end which transfers the ink from the pen onto a surface.
  • bandicoot — any agile terrestrial marsupial of the family Peramelidae of Australia and New Guinea. They have a long pointed muzzle and a long tail and feed mainly on small invertebrates
  • bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
  • bang into — a loud, sudden, explosive noise, as the discharge of a gun.
  • bank note — a promissory note issued by a bank, payable on demand: it is a form of paper money
  • bank shot — Basketball. a shot into the basket, made by rebounding the ball off the backboard.
  • banknotes — Plural form of banknote.
  • bankstown — a city in SE Australia, a suburb of Sydney.
  • barberton — a city in NE Ohio.
  • barbitone — a long-acting barbiturate used medicinally, usually in the form of the sodium salt, as a sedative or hypnotic
  • barbotine — a type of clay paste used in making decorated pottery
  • baritonal — of or relating to a baritone
  • baritones — Plural form of baritone.
  • barnstorm — When people such as politicians or performers barnstorm, they travel around the country making speeches or giving shows.
  • baronetcy — the rank, position, or patent of a baronet
  • bartokian — characteristic of the music of Béla Bartók: driving, percussive, Bartokian rhythm.
  • bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
  • bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
  • bathonian — of or relating to Bath
  • batswoman — a female batsman
  • batswomen — Plural form of batswoman.
  • battalion — A battalion is a large group of soldiers that consists of three or more companies.
  • batten on — If you say that someone battens on a particular person or thing, you disapprove of the fact that they become successful by forming a close connection with that person or thing.
  • bayoneted — a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-to-hand combat.
  • bean shot — refined copper having a shotlike form from being thrown into water in a molten state.
  • bean town — Boston, Mass. (used as a nickname).
  • beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
  • beat-down — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
  • beaverton — a town in NW Oregon.
  • bel canto — a style of singing characterized by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
  • belafonte — Harry, born 1922, U.S. singer and actor.
  • beta iron — a nonmagnetic allotrope of pure iron stable between 770°C and 910°C
  • bioparent — a biological parent
  • bissonata — a coarse woolen cloth constructed in plain weave and dyed black or brown, used in the manufacture of clerical vestments.
  • blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
  • bland out — to become bland
  • blank out — If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought.
  • boat nail — a nail with a convex head and a chisel point.
  • boat neck — a high slitlike neckline of a garment that extends onto the shoulders
  • boatswain — a petty officer on a merchant ship or a warrant officer on a warship who is responsible for the maintenance of the ship and its equipment
  • 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
  • bombinate — to make a buzzing noise
  • bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
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