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9-letter words containing t, o, b

  • bow front — swell front.
  • bow-front — having a front with a convex curve
  • bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
  • bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
  • box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it
  • box stall — a small stall with four walls for holding a horse
  • box stoop — a high stoop reached by a flight or flights of steps alongside the building front.
  • box store — a retail store that sells a limited assortment of basic grocery items, often, as at a warehouse, displayed in their original cartons in order to lower costs and prices.
  • boxed out — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
  • boy scout — The Boy Scouts is an organization for boys which teaches them discipline and practical skills.
  • boycotter — a person who boycotts
  • boyshorts — women's underpants which resemble close-fitting shorts, sitting below the waist and stretching to the tops of the legs
  • bracteole — a secondary bract subtending a flower within an inflorescence
  • bradenton — a city in W Florida.
  • brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
  • brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
  • breadroot — a leguminous plant, Psoralea esculenta, of central North America, having an edible starchy root
  • break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
  • bremerton — a city in W Washington, on Puget Sound: navy yard.
  • brentwood — a residential town in SE England, in SW Essex near London. Pop: 47 593 (2001)
  • briarroot — the hard woody root of the briar, used for making tobacco pipes
  • bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
  • brierroot — brier2 (sense 2)
  • brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
  • brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
  • bring out — When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
  • briolette — a pear-shaped gem cut with long triangular facets
  • brittonic — Brythonic
  • broach to — to turn or swing so that the beam faces the waves and wind and there is danger of swamping or capsizing
  • broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
  • broadtail — the highly valued black wavy fur obtained from the skins of newly born karakul lambs; caracul
  • brochette — a skewer or small spit, used for holding pieces of meat, etc, while roasting or grilling
  • bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
  • bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
  • brominate — to treat or react with bromine
  • bronxites — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
  • brotherly — A man's brotherly feelings are feelings of love and loyalty which you expect a brother to show.
  • brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
  • brown fat — tissue composed of a type of fat cell that dissipates as heat most of the energy released when food is oxidized; brown adipose tissue. It is present in hibernating animals and human babies and is thought to be important in adult weight control
  • brown out — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
  • brown rat — a common brownish rat, Rattus norvegicus: a serious pest in all parts of the world
  • brown rot — a disease of apples, peaches, etc, caused by fungi of the genus Sclerotinia and characterized by yellowish-brown masses of spores on the plant surface
  • bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
  • brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
  • bubbletop — a transparent dome, usually made of plastic or bulletproof glass, that serves as the roof or part of the roof of an automotive vehicle.
  • buck moth — a saturniid moth, Hemileuca maia, having delicate, grayish wings with a white band.
  • buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
  • bucktooth — a projecting upper front tooth
  • bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
  • bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
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