9-letter words containing a, b, i
- battening — to thrive by feeding; grow fat.
- batteries — a beating together of the calves or feet during a leap.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- battiness — the characteristic of being batty; craziness; insanity; eccentricity
- bauhinias — Plural form of bauhinia.
- baulkline — a straight line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game
- bawdiness — indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- baybars i — 1223–77, sultan of Egypt and Syria (1260–77), of the Mameluke dynasty
- bazillion — a very large, indefinite number
- bc neliac — Version of NELIAC, post 1962. Sammet 1969, p.197.
- beachside — situated near a beach
- beaconing — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- beam fill — material, as concrete, for filling spaces between beams or joists in or on top of a masonry wall.
- beam mill — a rolling mill for roughing a bloom and rolling it into a shape.
- beam wind — a wind blowing against a vessel from a direction at right angles to its keel.
- beaminess — the quality of beaming
- beamingly — in a beaming manner
- beamishly — in a beamish manner; smilingly; radiantly
- beaneries — Plural form of beanery.
- bear raid — an attempt to force down the price of a security or commodity by sustained selling
- bear with — If you ask someone to bear with you, you are asking them to be patient.
- beardfish — any of several fishes of the family Polymyxiidae, found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, having a pair of long barbels under the chin.
- bearishly — In a bearish manner.
- bearnaise — rich sauce made from egg yolks, lemon juice or wine vinegar, butter, shallots, herbs, and seasoning
- bearskins — Plural form of bearskin.
- beastings — beestings
- beastlier — Comparative form of beastly.
- beastlike — resembling a beast
- beat time — If you beat time to a piece of music, you move your hand or foot up and down in time with the music. A conductor beats time to show the choir or orchestra how fast they should sing or play the music.
- beatified — to make blissfully happy.
- beatifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beatify.
- beatinest — most remarkable or unusual: This is the beatinest town I ever did see.
- beatitude — supreme blessedness or happiness
- beaumaris — a resort in N Wales, on the island of Anglesey: 13th-century castle. Pop: 1513 (2001)
- beautiful — A beautiful person is very attractive to look at.
- becalming — Present participle of becalm.
- beccaccia — a woodcock
- beccafico — any of various European songbirds, esp warblers of the genus Sylvia, eaten as a delicacy in Italy and other countries
- bed chair — an adjustable frame for assisting invalids to sit up in bed.
- bedaubing — Present participle of bedaub.
- bedlamism — anything characteristic of bedlam
- bedlamite — a lunatic; insane person
- befalling — A happening; occurrence; chance; event.
- beggaring — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- beguinage — a convent for members of the Beguine sisterhood
- behaviors — manner of behaving or acting.
- behaviour — People's or animals' behaviour is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behaviour.
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone
- belgravia — a fashionable residential district of W central London, around Belgrave Square
- bellatrix — the third brightest star in the constellation Orion