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9-letter words containing o, t, s

  • boat shoe — a shoe, usually in a style somewhat like a moccasin, with a rubber sole suitable for walking on the deck of a boat
  • boathouse — A boathouse is a building at the edge of a lake, in which boats are kept.
  • 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
  • bob skate — an ice skate with two parallel blades
  • bodements — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
  • bogo-sort — (algorithm, humour)   /boh"goh-sort"/ (Or "stupid-sort") The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to bubble sort, which is merely the generic *bad* algorithm). Bogo-sort is equivalent to repeatedly throwing a deck of cards in the air, picking them up at random, and then testing whether they are in order. It serves as a sort of canonical example of awfulness. Looking at a program and seeing a dumb algorithm, one might say "Oh, I see, this program uses bogo-sort." Also known as "monkey sort" after the Infinite Monkey Theorem. Compare brute force, Lasherism.
  • bolstered — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
  • bomb site — A bomb site is an empty area where a bomb has destroyed all the buildings.
  • bombaster — a person who stuffs or pads
  • bombastic — If you describe someone as bombastic, you are criticizing them for trying to impress other people by saying things that sound impressive but have little meaning.
  • bombsight — a mechanical or electronic device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
  • bondstone — a long stone or brick laid in a wall as a header
  • book list — a list of books, especially a list of recommended or required readings.
  • book post — a special system and rate for posting books
  • book rest — a support for an open book, usually holding it at a slight angle.
  • bookstack — Usually, bookstacks. stack (def 4).
  • bookstall — A bookstall is a long table from which books and magazines are sold, for example at a conference or in a street market.
  • bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
  • bookstore — A bookstore is a shop where books are sold.
  • boom shot — a shot taken by a camera on a boom.
  • boom-bust — relating to a supposed cycle in which periods of prosperity and growth alternate with periods of recession
  • boot disk — (operating system)   The magnetic disk (usually a hard disk) from which an operating system kernel is loaded (or "bootstrapped"). This second phase in system start-up is performed by a simple bootstrap loader program held in ROM, possibly configured by data stored in some form of writable non-volatile storage. Some operating systems, notably SunOS and Solaris, can be configured to boot from a network rather than from disk. Such a system can thus run as a diskless workstation.
  • boot-tops — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
  • bootstrap — If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone, using very few resources.
  • bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
  • boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
  • bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
  • bostonian — a person from Boston
  • botmaster — (chat)   The owner of a bot.
  • botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
  • bounteous — giving freely; generous
  • bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
  • box stall — a small stall with four walls for holding a horse
  • box stoop — a high stoop reached by a flight or flights of steps alongside the building front.
  • box store — a retail store that sells a limited assortment of basic grocery items, often, as at a warehouse, displayed in their original cartons in order to lower costs and prices.
  • boy scout — The Boy Scouts is an organization for boys which teaches them discipline and practical skills.
  • boyshorts — women's underpants which resemble close-fitting shorts, sitting below the waist and stretching to the tops of the legs
  • brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
  • brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
  • broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
  • bronxites — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
  • bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
  • buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
  • bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
  • bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
  • burrstone — buhrstone
  • burst edo — Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
  • burst out — If someone bursts out laughing, crying, or making another noise, they suddenly start making that noise. You can also say that a noise bursts out.
  • bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
  • buttstock — the part of a gun behind the breech
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