9-letter words containing a, b, l, n
- paintable — easily painted
- paintball — a game in which players mark their opponents with colored gelatin capsules shot out of an air gun.
- palembang — a city in SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- pebbleman — DoD requirements that led to APSE. They were written in Jul 1978 and revised Jan 1979.
- pedal bin — A pedal bin is a container for waste, usually in a kitchen or bathroom. It has a lid which is controlled by a pedal that you press with your foot.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- pinballer — a person who plays pinball machines, especially regularly or habitually.
- plant bug — any of numerous, often brightly colored hemipterous insects of the family Miridae that feed on the juices of plants.
- pointable — able to be pointed or pointed out
- pole bean — any vinelike variety of bean that is trained to grow upright on a pole, trellis, fence, etc.
- pregnable — capable of being taken or won by force: a pregnable fortress.
- printable — capable of being printed.
- punchball — a form of playground or street baseball in which a rubber ball is batted with the fist.
- rain belt — a zone in which it usually rains
- ramble on — to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner: They rambled through the shops until closing time.
- ramblings — If you describe a speech or piece of writing as someone's ramblings, you are saying that it is meaningless because the person who said or wrote it was very confused or insane.
- rebalance — to balance (something) again
- refinable — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- renewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- renewably — in a renewable fashion, in such a way as to be renewable
- rinseable — able to be rinsed
- roundball — basketball
- rub along — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- sabellian — a member of a group of early Italian peoples including the Samnites and Sabines.
- san pablo — a city in the Philippines, on S Luzon.
- sandblast — a blast of air or steam laden with sand, used to clean, grind, cut, or decorate hard surfaces, as of glass, stone, or metal.
- scablands — rough, barren, volcanic topography with thin soils and little vegetation.
- scannable — to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page.
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- semblance — outward aspect or appearance.
- shambling — to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
- shrubland — land covered by shrubs
- sibilance — hissing.
- slabstone — a paving stone in the form of a slab; flagstone
- slam-bang — with noisy violence: He drove slam-bang through the garage door.
- slap bang — exactly
- slap-bang — slam-bang.
- slingback — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- sniffable — capable of being sniffed
- snowblade — one of a pair of short skis used without poles
- soil bank — a plan providing cash payments to farmers who cut production of certain surplus crops in favor of soil-enriching ones.
- spendable — available for spending.
- stableman — a person who works in a stable.
- stinkball — stinkpot (def 1).
- stub nail — a short, thick nail.
- subalpine — pertaining to the regions at the foot of the Alps.
- subaltern — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- sublation — to deny or contradict; negate.
- sublinear — of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.
- sublunary — situated beneath the moon or between the earth and the moon.