8-letter words containing t, b, k
- bluetick — a type of coonhound commonly bred in the southern United States
- blunkett — David, Baron. born 1947, British Labour politician: home secretary (2001–04)
- boathook — a pole with a hook at one end, used aboard a vessel for fending off other vessels or obstacles or for catching a line or mooring buoy
- boatlike — resembling a boat
- boatneck — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
- boltlike — resembling a bolt
- bontebok — an antelope, Damaliscus pygargus (or dorcas), of southern Africa, having a deep reddish-brown coat with a white blaze, tail, and rump patch
- book out — to leave or cause to leave a hotel
- bookrest — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- bootikin — a small boot or gaiter worn by infants
- bootjack — a device that grips the heel of a boot to enable the foot to be withdrawn easily
- bootlick — to seek favour by servile or ingratiating behaviour towards (someone, esp someone in authority); toady
- box kite — a kite with a boxlike frame open at both ends
- brackets — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- bratpack — a group of precocious and successful young actors, writers, etc
- breakout — If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison.
- brickbat — Brickbats are very critical or insulting remarks which are made in public about someone or something.
- bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- bro talk — Māori English
- brockton — city in E Mass., near Boston: pop. 94,000
- 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
- bucketed — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- cockboat — any small boat
- cut back — If you cut back something such as expenditure or cut back on it, you reduce it.
- cutbacks — Plural form of cutback.
- databank — a store of a large amount of information, esp in a form that can be handled by a computer
- datebook — a notebook in which a person keeps a personal record of daily events, appointments, etc
- dirtbike — An off-road motorcycle.
- factbook — A book of facts.
- fastback — a form of back for an automobile body consisting of a single, unbroken convex curve from the top to the rear bumper.
- flatback — a short name for the flatback turtle, Natator depressa, which is native to Australasia and characterized by the flatness of its back
- get back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- hackbolt — a European seabird, Puffinus major
- hawkbits — Plural form of hawkbit.
- hit back — retaliate
- ink blot — a stain on paper, made by ink
- inkblots — Plural form of inkblot.
- jackboot — a sturdy leather boot reaching up over the knee, worn especially by soldiers.
- jestbook — a book of jests or jokes.
- kabinett — cabinet (def 10).
- kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
- kawabata — Yasunari [yah-soo-nah-ree] /ˈyɑ sʊˈnɑ ri/ (Show IPA), 1899–1972, Japanese novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1968.