9-letter words containing o, t, e
- beaverton — a town in NW Oregon.
- bebington — a town in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: docks and chemical works. Pop: 57 066 (2001)
- bed stone — the fixed lower member of a pair of millstones. Compare runner (def 12).
- beethoven — Ludwig van (ˈluːtvɪç fan). 1770–1827, German composer, who greatly extended the form and scope of symphonic and chamber music, bridging the classical and romantic traditions. His works include nine symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, five piano concertos, a violin concerto, two masses, the opera Fidelio (1805), and choral music
- beetroots — Plural form of beetroot.
- befortune — to happen, befall, come about
- bel canto — a style of singing characterized by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
- belafonte — Harry, born 1922, U.S. singer and actor.
- belection — bolection.
- belitoeng — an island in Indonesia, between Borneo and Sumatra. 1866 sq. mi. (4833 sq. km).
- bell moth — any moth of the family Tortricidae, which when at rest resemble the shape of a bell
- bell toad — a frog, Ascaphus truei, of the northwestern U.S. and adjacent Canada, the male of which has its cloaca modified into a taillike copulatory organ.
- belt down — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- belt loop — a loop through which a belt is threaded
- bemonster — to treat as a monster
- benevento — a city in S Italy, in N Campania: at various times under Samnite, Roman, Lombard, Saracen, Norman, and papal rule. Pop: 61 791 (2001)
- benitoite — a rare mineral, barium titanium silicate, BaTiSi 3 O 9 , occurring in blue hexagonal crystals exhibiting dichroism.
- bentonite — a valuable clay, formed by the decomposition of volcanic ash, that swells as it absorbs water: used as a filler in the building, paper, and pharmaceutical industries
- bergstrom — Sune (ˈsʊnə). 1916–2004, Swedish biochemist; shared the Nobel prize for medicine and physiology (1982) for work on prostaglandin
- berthelot — Pierre Eugène Marselin [marsuh-lan] /mærsəˈlɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1827–1907, French chemist.
- bertillon — Alphonse [al-fons,, -fonz;; French al-fawns] /ˈæl fɒns,, -fɒnz;; French alˈfɔ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1853–1914, French anthropologist: devised Bertillon system.
- beta iron — a nonmagnetic allotrope of pure iron stable between 770°C and 910°C
- betatopic — (of atoms) differing in proton number by one, theoretically as a result of emission of a beta particle
- bethought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
- betrothal — A betrothal is an agreement to be married.
- betrothed — If you are betrothed to someone, you have agreed to marry them.
- betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- betterton — Thomas, 1635?–1710, English actor and dramatist.
- bifoliate — having only two leaves
- bigotedly — in a bigoted manner
- bigotgate — an incident in the 2010 British general election in which the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, described in private a voter he had met as a ‘bigoted woman’ not realizing that his radio microphone was still on and that his comments were being recorded
- bijection — a mathematical function or mapping that is both an injection and a surjection and therefore has an inverse
- bilection — bolection
- bilestone — gallstone.
- bimotored — having two engines.
- bioactive — (of a substance) having or producing an effect on living tissue
- bioethics — the study of ethical problems arising from biological research and its applications in such fields as organ transplantation, genetic engineering, or artificial insemination
- biometric — Biometric tests and devices use biological information about a person to create a detailed record of their personal characteristics.
- bioparent — a biological parent
- biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
- biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
- biostable — resistant to the effects of microorganisms
- biostrome — a rock layer consisting of a deposit of organic material, such as fossils
- bioturbed — stirred by organisms
- bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
- bisontine — relating to bison
- bivoltine — producing two broods in one year, as certain silkworm moths.
- bleed out — to die as a result of losing blood through an unattended wound
- bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.
- bloatware — computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements