9-letter words containing t, o
- bolt hole — a hole in the ground, protected opening in bushes, etc., into which an animal can flee when pursued or frightened.
- bolt-hole — If you say that someone has a bolt-hole to go to, you mean that there is somewhere that they can go when they want to get away from people that they know.
- boltzmann — Ludwig (ˈluːtvɪç). 1844–1906, Austrian physicist. He established the principle of the equipartition of energy and developed the kinetic theory of gases with J. C. Maxwell
- bomb belt — a belt carrying explosives which is worn around the waist by a suicide bomber
- bomb site — A bomb site is an empty area where a bomb has destroyed all the buildings.
- bombaster — a person who stuffs or pads
- bombastic — If you describe someone as bombastic, you are criticizing them for trying to impress other people by saying things that sound impressive but have little meaning.
- bombilate — to make a buzzing noise
- bombinate — to make a buzzing noise
- bombsight — a mechanical or electronic device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- bondstone — a long stone or brick laid in a wall as a header
- bonetired — completely exhausted
- bonington — Sir Chris(tian John Storey). born 1934, British mountaineer and writer; led 1970 Annapurna I and 1975 Everest expeditions; reached Everest summit in 1985
- bontebuck — bontebok.
- 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