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9-letter words containing t, b, k

  • basketeer — Someone who makes baskets; a basketmaker.
  • basketful — a sufficient quantity to fill a basket; the amount contained in a basket.
  • batu khan — d. 1255, Mongol conqueror: leader of the Golden Horde (grandson of Genghis Khan).
  • beanstalk — the stem of a bean plant
  • beastlike — resembling a beast
  • beat back — to force to retreat; drive back
  • bedjacket — A short jacket worn when sitting up in bed, usually by women.
  • beefsteak — Beefsteak is steak.
  • bethankit — (used as part of a grace spoken before a meal) God be thanked!
  • betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
  • bhaktapur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
  • bialystok — a city in E Poland.
  • białystok — a city in E Poland: belonged to Prussia (1795–1807) and to Russia (1807–1919). Pop: 315 000 (2005 est)
  • big skate — See under skate2 .
  • big stick — force or the threat of using force
  • bike path — A bike path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
  • birthmark — A birthmark is a mark on someone's skin that has been there since they were born.
  • bite back — If you bite back a feeling or something that you were going to say, you stop yourself from expressing it.
  • black art — black magic
  • black hat — a computer hacker who carries out illegal malicious hacking work
  • black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
  • black pit — a disease of lemons, characterized by dark brown, sunken spots on the skin of the fruit, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas syringae.
  • black rat — a common rat, Rattus rattus: a household pest that has spread from its native Asia to all countries
  • black rot — any of various plant diseases of fruits and vegetables, producing blackening, rotting, and shrivelling and caused by bacteria (including Xanthomonas campestris) and fungi (such as Physalospora malorum)
  • black tar — black heroin.
  • black tea — tea withered and fermented before being dried by heating
  • black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
  • black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
  • blackbutt — any of various Australian eucalyptus trees having rough fibrous bark and hard wood used as timber
  • blackfoot — a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
  • blacklist — If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong.
  • blacktail — a variety of mule deer having a black tail
  • blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
  • 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.
  • blavatsky — Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky. 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)
  • block out — If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it.
  • block tin — pure tin, esp when cast into ingots
  • blockbust — to encourage the sale of property by means of blockbusting
  • boat deck — the deck of a ship on which the lifeboats are kept
  • boat hook — a hook mounted at the end of a pole, used to pull or push boats toward or away from a landing, to pick up a mooring, etc.
  • boat neck — a high slitlike neckline of a garment that extends onto the shoulders
  • bob skate — an ice skate with two parallel blades
  • bontebuck — bontebok.
  • book into — to reserve a room for (oneself or someone else) at (a hotel)
  • 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.
  • book tile — a flat, cellular roofing tile having two parallel edges one of which is convex and the other concave, so that a number may be fit together edge to edge between rafters, joists, etc.
  • bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
  • booklight — a small light that can be clipped onto a book for reading by
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