9-letter words containing a, b, i, n
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- brigading — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- brilliant — A brilliant person, idea, or performance is extremely clever or skilful.
- brinjarry — (in India) an itinerant grain and salt trader
- britannia — a female warrior carrying a trident and wearing a helmet, personifying Great Britain or the British Empire
- britannic — of Britain; British (esp in the phrases His or Her Britannic Majesty)
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- bucranium — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- bulgarian — Bulgarian means belonging or relating to Bulgaria, or to its people, language, or culture.
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- burundian — of or relating to Burundi or its inhabitants
- butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byzantine — Byzantine means related to or connected with the Byzantine Empire.
- byzantium — an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul
- caballine — pertaining to a horse
- caballing — a small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority.
- cabin boy — a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cabinmate — a person with whom one shares a cabin
- calabrian — of or relating to Calabria or its inhabitants
- cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- cannibals — Plural form of cannibal.
- cantabile — (to be performed) in a singing style, i.e. flowingly and melodiously
- cantabria — a province and autonomous community in N Spain
- carabiner — in mountain climbing, an oval metal ring with a snap link used to fasten a rope to the piton
- carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
- carbanion — a negatively charged organic ion in which most of the negative charge is localized on a carbon atom
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbineer — (formerly) a soldier equipped with a carbine
- carbonari — a secret political society with liberal republican aims, originating in S Italy about 1811 and particularly engaged in the struggle for Italian unification
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- carbonize — to turn or be turned into carbon as a result of heating, fossilization, chemical treatment, etc
- caribbean — The Caribbean is the sea which is between the West Indies, Central America and the north coast of South America.
- cediranib — A potent inhibitor of VEGF receptor tyrosine kinases, under development as a possible anticancer drug.
- chainbelt — a belt made up of metal links, used as a conveyor or with a chain gear.
- chilblain — Chilblains are painful red swellings which people sometimes get on their fingers or toes in cold weather.
- chin ball — a device fastened under the chin of a bull to mark cows it has mounted