9-letter words containing n, a, b, o, t
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barnstorm — When people such as politicians or performers barnstorm, they travel around the country making speeches or giving shows.
- baronetcy — the rank, position, or patent of a baronet
- bartokian — characteristic of the music of Béla Bartók: driving, percussive, Bartokian rhythm.
- bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- bathonian — of or relating to Bath
- batswoman — a female batsman
- batswomen — Plural form of batswoman.
- battalion — A battalion is a large group of soldiers that consists of three or more companies.
- batten on — If you say that someone battens on a particular person or thing, you disapprove of the fact that they become successful by forming a close connection with that person or thing.
- bayoneted — a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-to-hand combat.
- bean shot — refined copper having a shotlike form from being thrown into water in a molten state.
- bean town — Boston, Mass. (used as a nickname).
- beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
- beat-down — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- beaverton — a town in NW Oregon.
- bel canto — a style of singing characterized by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
- belafonte — Harry, born 1922, U.S. singer and actor.
- beta iron — a nonmagnetic allotrope of pure iron stable between 770°C and 910°C
- bioparent — a biological parent
- bissonata — a coarse woolen cloth constructed in plain weave and dyed black or brown, used in the manufacture of clerical vestments.
- 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.
- boat nail — a nail with a convex head and a chisel point.
- boat neck — a high slitlike neckline of a garment that extends onto the shoulders
- boatswain — a petty officer on a merchant ship or a warrant officer on a warship who is responsible for the maintenance of the ship and its equipment
- 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
- bombinate — to make a buzzing noise
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- 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
- botulinal — of or relating to the bacterium Clostridium botulinum
- 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.
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- 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 rat — a common brownish rat, Rattus norvegicus: a serious pest in all parts of the world
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- buoyantly — in a happy, confident manner
- canalboat — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
- cancelbot — a computer program that deletes unwanted mailings to internet usergroups
- canrobert — François Certain [frahn-swa ser-tan] /frɑ̃ˈswa sɛrˈtɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1809–95, French marshal.