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9-letter words containing t, o

  • bibliotic — relating to bibliotics
  • bicoastal — Someone or something that is bicoastal lives or occurs on both the east coast and the west coast of the U.S.
  • bicompact — compact1 (def 7).
  • bifoliate — having only two leaves
  • biformity — having or combining two forms, as a centaur or mermaid.
  • big mouth — If you say that someone is a big mouth or that they have a big mouth, you mean that they tell other people things that should have been kept secret.
  • 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.
  • billionth — The billionth item in a series is the one you count as number one billion.
  • bimonthly — A bimonthly event or publication happens or appears every two months.
  • bimotored — having two engines.
  • binturong — an arboreal SE Asian viverrine mammal, Arctictis binturong, closely related to the palm civets but larger and having long shaggy black hair
  • 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
  • biologist — a specialist in biology.
  • 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
  • biorhythm — a cyclically recurring pattern of physiological states in an organism or organ, such as alpha rhythm or circadian rhythm; believed by some to affect physical and mental states and behaviour
  • biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
  • biostable — resistant to the effects of microorganisms
  • biostatic — the branch of biology dealing with the structure of organisms in relation to their functions (opposed to biodynamics).
  • biostrome — a rock layer consisting of a deposit of organic material, such as fossils
  • bioturbed — stirred by organisms
  • bird shot — small-sized shot used for shooting birds.
  • birthroot — any of several North American plants of the genus Trillium, esp T. erectum, whose tuber-like roots were formerly used by the Native Americans as an aid in childbirth: family Trilliaceae
  • birthwort — any of several climbing plants of the genus Aristolochia, esp A. clematitis of Europe, once believed to ease childbirth: family Aristolochiaceae
  • bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
  • bisontine — relating to bison
  • bissonata — a coarse woolen cloth constructed in plain weave and dyed black or brown, used in the manufacture of clerical vestments.
  • bitty box — (abuse)   (Or "calculator") /bit'ee boks/ A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it. The term is especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal computers such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80 or IBM PC, but the term is a general pejorative opposite of "real computer" (see Get a real computer!). See also mess-dos, toaster, toy.
  • bivoltine — producing two broods in one year, as certain silkworm moths.
  • black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
  • black rot — any of various plant diseases of fruits and vegetables, producing blackening, rotting, and shrivelling and caused by bacteria (including Xanthomonas campestris) and fungi (such as Physalospora malorum)
  • blackfoot — a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
  • blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
  • bland out — to become bland
  • blank out — If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought.
  • blast off — When a space rocket blasts off, it leaves the ground at the start of its journey.
  • blast out — If music or noise is blasting out, loud music or noise is being produced.
  • 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.
  • blimp out — to become greatly overweight
  • bliss out — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
  • 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.
  • block out — If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it.
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