9-letter words containing t, o, b, a, c
- 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.
- cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
- canalboat — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
- cancelbot — a computer program that deletes unwanted mailings to internet usergroups
- canrobert — François Certain [frahn-swa ser-tan] /frɑ̃ˈswa sɛrˈtɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1809–95, French marshal.
- carbonate — Carbonate is used in the names of some substances that are formed from carbonic acid, which is a compound of carbon dioxide and water.
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- catabolic — destructive metabolism; the breaking down in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones, with the release of energy (opposed to anabolism).
- catacombs — an underground burial place, esp the galleries at Rome, consisting of tunnels with vaults or niches leading off them for tombs
- cobalt 60 — a radioactive isotope of cobalt having a mass number of 60 and a half-life of 5.2 years, used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- cobaltite — a rare silvery-white mineral consisting of cobalt arsenic sulphide in cubic crystalline form: a major ore of cobalt, used in ceramics. Formula: CoAsS
- cobaltous — of or containing cobalt in the divalent state
- cockboats — Plural form of cockboat.
- cogitable — conceivable
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohabitee — A person who cohabits with another.
- cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohobated — to distill again from the same or a similar substance, as by pouring a distilled liquid back upon the matter remaining in the vessel, or upon another mass of similar matter.
- cohobates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohobate.
- coinhabit — To inhabit together.
- columbate — any salt of columbic acid
- combatant — A combatant is a person, group, or country that takes part in the fighting in a war.
- combaters — Plural form of combater.
- combating — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
- combatted — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combinate — combined
- comptable — countable
- constable — In Britain and some other countries, a constable is a police officer of the lowest rank.
- countable — capable of being counted
- countably — in a countable manner
- countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
- covetable — to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- crosstabs — Simple language for statistical analysis of tabular data. "User's Manual for the CROSSTABS System", Cambridge Computer Assoc (Feb 1977).
- cut above — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- ectoblast — the ectoderm.
- emboscata — a sudden attack or raid
- embrocate — (medicine, transitive) To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.
- fob watch — a pocket watch that is attached to a waistcoat by a chain or ribbon
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- iceboater — a person who races iceboats, especially as a hobby or in competition.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- isobathic — having the same depth.
- jackboots — Plural form of jackboot.
- jacobsite — a rare magnetic mineral, manganese iron oxide, MnFe 2 O 4 , similar to magnetite.
- katabolic — Alternative form of catabolic.
- kickabout — An informal amateur game of football/soccer.
- locatable — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- matchbook — a small cardboard folder into which several rows of paper matches are stapled or glued.