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8-letter words containing t, o, b

  • brooklet — a small brook
  • browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
  • brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
  • brownout — a dimming or reduction in the use of electric lights in a city, esp to conserve electric power or as a defensive precaution in wartime
  • buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
  • buff top — a very low, almost flat, cabochon cut.
  • buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
  • bullboat — a lightweight, shallow-draft boat made of hides stretched over a wooden frame and used by Plains Indians.
  • bullpout — a type of fish
  • bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
  • bun foot — a foot having the form of a slightly flattened ball.
  • bunodont — (of the teeth of certain mammals) having cusps that are separate and rounded
  • burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
  • burn out — If a fire burns itself out, it stops burning because there is nothing left to burn.
  • burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
  • bus stop — A bus stop is a place on a road where buses stop to let passengers on and off.
  • bush lot — a tract of timberland
  • bushgoat — a S African antelope
  • bust out — escape from somewhere
  • butanone — a colourless soluble flammable liquid used mainly as a solvent for resins, as a paint remover, and in lacquers, cements, and adhesives. Formula: CH3COC2H5
  • butt out — If someone tells you to butt out, they are telling you rudely to go away or not to interfere with what they are doing.
  • butthole — anus.
  • buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
  • butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous
  • buy boat — a boat sent out by a dealer to purchase the catches of fishing vessels.
  • buy into — If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
  • cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
  • cabotage — coastal navigation or shipping, esp within the borders of one country
  • car boot — the place at the back of a car for putting luggage in
  • catacomb — Catacombs are ancient underground passages and rooms, especially under a city, where people used to be buried.
  • catboats — Plural form of catboat.
  • cenobite — a member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
  • chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
  • cibation — the act of feeding
  • clonebot — (chat)   (Or "clone") A bot meant to replicate itself en masse on a talk network (generally IRC). A bot appears on the network as several agents, and then carries out some task, typically that of flooding another user. Compare ghost.
  • clubfoot — If someone has a clubfoot, they are born with a badly twisted foot.
  • clubroot — a disease of cabbages and related plants, caused by the fungus Plasmodiophora brassicae, in which the roots become thickened and distorted
  • cobaltic — of or containing cobalt, esp in the trivalent state
  • cockboat — any small boat
  • codebtor — a fellow debtor
  • cohabits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohabit.
  • cohobate — to redistil (a distillate), esp by allowing it to mingle with the remaining matter
  • comb out — to remove (tangles or knots) from (the hair) with a comb
  • comb-out — a thorough combing or brushing of the hair.
  • combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
  • combater — One who combats.
  • contrib. — contributor
  • corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
  • costable — For which a monetary cost may be assessed.
  • cotabato — a city on W central Mindanao, in the S Philippines.
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