9-letter words containing a, l, b, i, n
- balzarine — a light cotton and wool fabric used for dress-making
- banalized — to render or make banal; trivialize: Television has often been accused of banalizing even the most serious subjects.
- band list — a list of Canadian Indians formally recognized as belonging to a band
- band mill — a powered machine having two pulleys for a saw band or a file band; band saw.
- bandelier — Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840–1914, U.S. anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian, born in Switzerland.
- bandolier — a soldier's broad shoulder belt having small pockets or loops for cartridges
- bandoline — a glutinous hair dressing, used (esp formerly) to keep the hair in place
- bank bill — a bill of exchange drawn by one bank on another
- bardolino — a light dry red wine produced around Verona in NE Italy
- baritonal — of or relating to a baritone
- barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- basaltine — a black or brown-green mineral (Ca, Mg, Fe)SiO3
- base line — a line serving as a base
- baseliner — a player who plays most of his or her shots from the back of court
- baselines — Plural form of baseline.
- basilican — basilic (def 2).
- basilicon — any of a variety of healing ointments applied to wounds in early medicine, commonly using lard or oil, resin, and wax
- basinlike — resembling a basin
- battalion — A battalion is a large group of soldiers that consists of three or more companies.
- batteling — Alternative form of battling.
- baulkline — a straight line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game
- bazillion — a very large, indefinite number
- bc neliac — Version of NELIAC, post 1962. Sammet 1969, p.197.
- beamingly — in a beaming manner
- becalming — Present participle of becalm.
- befalling — A happening; occurrence; chance; event.
- bengaline — a heavy corded fabric, esp silk with woollen or cotton cord
- beta line — beta (def 6).
- bi-annual — occurring twice a year; semiannual.
- biangular — having two angles or corners.
- biconical — an object shaped like two cones with their bases together.
- bigeminal — happening in pairs
- bike lane — A bike lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by people riding bicycles.
- bilineate — marked with two usually parallel lines.
- bilingual — Bilingual means involving or using two languages.
- billabong — a backwater channel that forms a lagoon or pool
- bin laden — Osama (əʊˈsɑːmə). 1957–2011, Saudi-born leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network: presumed architect of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11 2001. Killed by US Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
- binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
- binominal — of or denoting the binomial nomenclature
- binovular — relating to or derived from two different ova
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- birlieman — a judge dealing with local law
- bit plane — (graphics) (Or "bitplane") The memory in a graphic display device which holds a complete one-bit-per-pixel image. Several bit planes may be used in conjunction to give more bits per pixel or to overlay several images or mask one with another. "Bit plane" may be used as a synonym for "bitmap", though the latter suggests the data itself rather than the memory and also suggests a graphics file format.
- bivalence — the semantic principle that there are exactly two truth values, so that every meaningful statement is either true or false
- bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
- blazingly — in a blazing manner
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- blitz can — Military. jerry can (def 1).
- blitz-can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
- boat nail — a nail with a convex head and a chisel point.