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9-letter words containing a, b, i

  • bobadilla — Francisco de [frahn-thees-kaw th e,, -sees-] /frɑnˈθis kɔ ðɛ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), died 1502, Spanish colonial governor in the West Indies: sent Columbus back to Spain in chains.
  • bobtailed — having the tail cut short
  • boccaccio — Giovanni (dʒoˈvani). 1313–75, Italian poet and writer, noted particularly for his Decameron (1353), a collection of 100 short stories. His other works include Filostrato (?1338) and Teseida (1341)
  • bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
  • body hair — hair that grows on the body as opposed to the head or face
  • boil away — When you boil away a liquid, or when it boils away, it is boiled until all of it changes into steam or vapour.
  • boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
  • bokassa i — original name Jean Bedel Bokassa. 1921–96, president of the Central African Republic (1972–76); emperor of the renamed Central African Empire from 1976 until overthrown in 1979
  • boliviano — (until 1963 and from 1987) the standard monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos
  • bombasine — bombazine.
  • 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.
  • bombazine — a twilled fabric, esp one with a silk warp and worsted weft, formerly worn dyed black for mourning
  • bombilate — to make a buzzing noise
  • bombinate — to make a buzzing noise
  • bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
  • bonilasse — an attractive young woman
  • boobialla — any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Myoporum, esp M. insulare
  • boogieman — bogeyman.
  • book fair — a commercial event at which publishers exhibit and trade books
  • bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
  • borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
  • 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
  • bourguiba — Habib ben Ali (hæˈbɪb bɛn ˈɑːlɪ). 1903–2000, Tunisian statesman: president of Tunisia (1957–87); a moderate and an advocate of gradual social change. He was deposed in a coup and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life
  • bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
  • brabbling — to argue stubbornly about trifles; wrangle.
  • brachiate — having widely divergent paired branches
  • bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
  • braillist — a person who transcribes or creates Braille
  • braincase — the part of the cranium that protects the brain
  • braindead — having suffered brain death
  • brainfart — an idea that a person voices without much consideration, such as during a brainstorming session
  • brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
  • brainfuck — (language)   An eight-instruction esoteric programming language created by Urban Müller. His goal was apparently to create a Turing-complete language with the smallest compiler ever, for the Amiga OS 2.0. He eventually reduced his compiler to under 200 bytes. A Brainfuck program has a pointer that moves within an array of 30000 bytes, initially all set to zero. The pointer initially points to the beginning of this array. The language has eight commands, each of which is represented as a single character, and which can be expressed in terms of C as follows: > ==> ++p; < ==> --p; + ==> ++*p; - ==> --*p; . ==> putchar(*p); , ==> *p = getchar(); [ ==> while (*p) { ] ==> } Brian Raiter's Brainfuck page.
  • brainless — If you describe someone or something as brainless, you mean that you think they are stupid.
  • brainsick — relating to or caused by insanity; crazy; mad
  • brainstem — the stalklike part of the brain consisting of the medulla oblongata, the midbrain, and the pons Varolii
  • braintree — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
  • brainwash — If you brainwash someone, you force them to believe something by continually telling them that it is true, and preventing them from thinking about it properly.
  • brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
  • brainwork — intellectual effort
  • brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
  • brambling — a Eurasian finch, Fringilla montifringilla, with a speckled head and back and, in the male, a reddish brown breast and darker wings and tail
  • branchiae — the gills of an aquatic animal
  • branchial — of or relating to the gills of an aquatic animal, esp a fish
  • branching — the occurrence of several decay paths (branches) in the disintegration of a particular nuclide or the de-excitation of an excited atom. The branching fraction (nuclear) or branching ratio (atomic) is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides
  • branchio- — gills
  • brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
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