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9-letter words containing t, o, b

  • boob tube — The boob tube is the television.
  • 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
  • bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
  • bookstack — Usually, bookstacks. stack (def 4).
  • bookstall — A bookstall is a long table from which books and magazines are sold, for example at a conference or in a street market.
  • bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
  • bookstore — A bookstore is a shop where books are sold.
  • boom shot — a shot taken by a camera on a boom.
  • boom time — a period in which there is a surge of prosperity for a person, place, or industry
  • boom town — A boom town is a town which has rapidly become very rich and full of people, usually because industry or business has developed there.
  • boom-bust — relating to a supposed cycle in which periods of prosperity and growth alternate with periods of recession
  • boot camp — In the United States, a boot camp is a camp where people who have just joined the army, navy, or marines are trained.
  • boot disk — (operating system)   The magnetic disk (usually a hard disk) from which an operating system kernel is loaded (or "bootstrapped"). This second phase in system start-up is performed by a simple bootstrap loader program held in ROM, possibly configured by data stored in some form of writable non-volatile storage. Some operating systems, notably SunOS and Solaris, can be configured to boot from a network rather than from disk. Such a system can thus run as a diskless workstation.
  • boot hill — a cemetery of a frontier settlement, especially one in which gunfighters were buried.
  • boot hook — one of a pair of L -shaped metal hooks fixed to a handle, for drawing on a boot by inserting it through a bootstrap.
  • boot tree — a shoetree for a boot, often having supports to stretch the leg of the boot
  • boot-tops — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
  • bootblack — a person whose work is shining shoes and boots
  • boothroyd — Betty. Baroness. born 1929, British politician; speaker of the House of Commons (1992–2000)
  • bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
  • bootstrap — If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone, using very few resources.
  • bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
  • boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
  • borghetto — (in Italy) a settlement outside a city's walls
  • bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
  • bostonian — a person from Boston
  • botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
  • botanizer — a person who botanizes
  • botchedly — in a botched or clumsy manner
  • bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
  • botmaster — (chat)   The owner of a bot.
  • bottle it — If you say that someone has bottled it, you mean that they have lost their courage at the last moment and have not done something they intended to do.
  • bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
  • bottleful — the amount a bottle will hold
  • bottom-up — from the lowest level of a hierarchy or process to the top
  • bottoming — the lowest level of foundation material for a road or other structure
  • botulinal — of or relating to the bacterium Clostridium botulinum
  • botulinum — an anaerobic botulin-secreting bacterium, Clostridium botulinum
  • botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
  • botvinnik — Mikhail Moiseivich (mixaˈil məiˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1911–95, Soviet chess player; world champion (1948–57, 1958–60, 1961–63)
  • bounteous — giving freely; generous
  • bountiful — A bountiful supply or amount of something pleasant is a large one.
  • bountyhed — the quality of being bounteous
  • boutiquey — having the characteristics of a boutique
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