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.