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8-letter words containing o, r, t

  • birdshot — small pellets designed for shooting birds
  • bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
  • bistoury — a long surgical knife with a narrow blade
  • blowkart — a simple wheeled vehicle such as a go-kart which has been fitted with a sail and is powered by the wind
  • boatyard — A boatyard is a place where boats are built and repaired or kept.
  • body art — physical adornments such as tattoos and piercings
  • boertjie — a person, esp a friend, often used as a term of address
  • bogarted — to take an unfair share of (something); keep for oneself instead of sharing: Are you gonna bogart that joint all night?
  • boltrope — a rope sewn to the foot or luff of a sail to strengthen it
  • bonporti — Francesco Antonio. 1672–1749, Italian composer and violinist, noted esp for his Invenzioni (1712), a series of short instrumental suites
  • bookrest — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
  • boracite — a white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate and chloride in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Mg3ClB7O13
  • bornitic — of or relating to bornite
  • bot army — a group of computers, infected with malign programs via the internet, that can be controlled remotely to, for example, mount denial-of-service attacks
  • botchery — an instance of botched workmanship
  • bothered — worried or concerned
  • bothrium — one of two groove-shaped suckers on the scolex of a tapeworm
  • botryoid — having the form of a bunch of grapes: botryoidal hematite.
  • botryose — Mineralogy. botryoidal.
  • botrytis — any of a group of fungi of the genus Botrytis, several of which cause plant diseases
  • botsares — Markos [Greek mahr-kaws] /Greek ˈmɑr kɔs/ (Show IPA), Bozzaris, Marco.
  • bottomer — a person who makes the seat part of a chair
  • bottomry — a contract whereby the owner of a ship borrows money to enable the vessel to complete the voyage and pledges the ship as security for the loan
  • bourtree — the elder-tree
  • bowfront — having a front that curves outwards
  • bowsprit — a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel, esp a sailing vessel, used to carry the headstay as far forward as possible
  • boxthorn — matrimony vine
  • brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
  • breakout — If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison.
  • brentano — Clemens (Maria) (ˈkleːmənz). 1778–1842, German romantic poet and compiler of fairy stories and folk songs esp (with Achim von Arnim) the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1805–08)
  • bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
  • brighton — a coastal resort in S England, in Brighton and Hove unitary authority, East Sussex: patronized by the Prince Regent, who had the Royal Pavilion built (1782); seat of the University of Sussex (1966) and the University of Brighton (1992). Pop: 134 293 (2001)
  • bring to — If you bring someone to when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
  • bristols — a woman's breasts
  • bro talk — Māori English
  • broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
  • brockton — city in E Mass., near Boston: pop. 94,000
  • brontide — a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity.
  • bronxite — a cocktail of gin, sweet and dry vermouth, and orange juice.
  • bronzite — a type of orthopyroxene often having a metallic or pearly sheen
  • brookite — a reddish-brown to black mineral consisting of titanium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in silica veins. Formula: TiO2
  • brooklet — a small brook
  • browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
  • brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
  • brownout — a dimming or reduction in the use of electric lights in a city, esp to conserve electric power or as a defensive precaution in wartime
  • burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
  • burn out — If a fire burns itself out, it stops burning because there is nothing left to burn.
  • burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
  • butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous
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