9-letter words containing a, n, o, s
- bankstown — a city in SE Australia, a suburb of Sydney.
- bannerols — Plural form of bannerol.
- bar-spoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barnstorm — When people such as politicians or performers barnstorm, they travel around the country making speeches or giving shows.
- barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
- basilicon — any of a variety of healing ointments applied to wounds in early medicine, commonly using lard or oil, resin, and wax
- bass horn — an obsolete wind instrument of low range
- bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- batswoman — a female batsman
- batswomen — Plural form of batswoman.
- bean shot — refined copper having a shotlike form from being thrown into water in a molten state.
- beanpoles — Plural form of beanpole.
- bissonata — a coarse woolen cloth constructed in plain weave and dyed black or brown, used in the manufacture of clerical vestments.
- boanerges — a nickname applied by Jesus to James and John in Mark 3:17
- boatswain — a petty officer on a merchant ship or a warrant officer on a warship who is responsible for the maintenance of the ship and its equipment
- bojangles — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- bombasine — bombazine.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- bonilasse — an attractive young woman
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
- bostonian — a person from Boston
- broadness — the state or character of being broad: the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- by a nose — by the length of the animal's nose in horse racing, etc.
- c rations — tinned food formerly issued in packs to US soldiers
- cabochons — Plural form of cabochon.
- caesionid — (zoology) Any member of the Caesionidae.
- cameroons — former region in W Africa consisting of two trust territories, French Cameroons (in 1960 forming the republic of Cameroon ) and British Cameroons (in 1961 divided between Cameroon and Nigeria)
- campesino — a Latin American rural peasant
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- cankerous — having cankers
- canoeists — Plural form of canoeist.
- canonicus — c1565–1647, Narragansett leader: yielded Rhode Island to Roger Williams 1636.
- canonised — Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
- canonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canonize.
- canonries — Plural form of canonry.
- canonship — the position or office of canon; canonry.
- canoodles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canoodle.
- cantonese — Cantonese means belonging or relating to the Chinese provinces of Canton (Guangdong in Mandarin).
- cantonise — divide into cantons
- canzonets — Plural form of canzonet.
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
- capstones — Plural form of capstone.
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.