9-letter words containing t, o, b, e
- 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
- bloc-vote — to vote in or as a bloc: Party conservatives can be counted on to bloc-vote.
- bloodgate — an incident during the 2010 Heineken Cup quarter-final in which winger Tom Williams faked a bleeding mouth injury to create a substitution opportunity for his team, the Harlequins
- blootered — intoxicated; drunk
- bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
- blow tube — a tube for blowing air or oxygen into a flame to intensify its heat and direct it onto a small area
- blue note — a flattened third or seventh, used frequently in the blues
- bluemouth — a deep water fish, Helicolenus dactylopterus
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- bluestone — a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
- bluetooth — Bluetooth is a technology that allows computers, mobile phones and other devices to communicate with each other without being connected by wires.
- boastless — without boasting
- boat deck — the deck of a ship on which the lifeboats are kept
- boat neck — a high slitlike neckline of a garment that extends onto the shoulders
- boat ride — a ride in a boat
- 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.
- bob skate — an ice skate with two parallel blades
- bobtailed — having the tail cut short
- bode plot — A Bode plot is the graph of amplitude (in decibels) and phase against frequency (in logarithmic format).
- bodements — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- body belt — a wide belt used to support the back, or to provide protection or warmth
- body type — type used in the main text of printed matter, generally less than 14 points.
- bogometer — (humour) /boh-gom'-*t-er/ A notional instrument for measuring bogosity. Compare the "wankometer" described in the wank entry.
- bogue out — /bohg owt/ To become bogus, suddenly and unexpectedly. "His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked him a trick question; then he bogued out and did nothing but flame afterward." See also bogosity.
- bold type — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in a dictionary