9-letter words containing b, a, n, s
- bankstown — a city in SE Australia, a suburb of Sydney.
- bannerets — Plural form of banneret.
- bannerols — Plural form of bannerol.
- bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert). born 1929, British athlete and doctor: first man to run a mile in under four minutes (1954)
- bantustan — (formerly, in South Africa) an area reserved for occupation by a Black African people, with limited self-government; abolished in 1993
- baptisand — Alternative spelling of baptizand.
- baptising — Present participle of baptise.
- bar snack — a light quick meal, such as a sandwich or pie, served in a bar
- bar-spoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
- barasinga — a species of deer, Cervus duvaucelii, native to India and Nepal, known for the many-pointed nature of its antlers
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barminess — the quality of being barmy; craziness
- barnacles — nose pincers for controlling an unruly horse
- barnstorm — When people such as politicians or performers barnstorm, they travel around the country making speeches or giving shows.
- barnyards — Plural form of barnyard.
- barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
- barrancas — Plural form of barranca.
- bartizans — Plural form of bartizan.
- basaltine — a black or brown-green mineral (Ca, Mg, Fe)SiO3
- base line — a line serving as a base
- base unit — any of the fundamental units in a system of measurement. The base SI units are the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole
- basebands — Plural form of baseband.
- baseliner — a player who plays most of his or her shots from the back of court
- baselines — Plural form of baseline.
- basements — Plural form of basement.
- bashed in — crushed or dented from a blow
- bashments — Plural form of bashment.
- basicness — Quality or degree of being basic.
- 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
- bass horn — an obsolete wind instrument of low range
- bassanite — (mineral) A saline evaporite, consisting of calcium sulphate, found at Vesuvius.
- bassinets — Plural form of bassinet.
- bastinade — bastinado.
- 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.
- battiness — the characteristic of being batty; craziness; insanity; eccentricity
- bauhinias — Plural form of bauhinia.
- bawdiness — indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- beam-ends — the ends of a vessel's beams
- beaminess — the quality of beaming
- bean shot — refined copper having a shotlike form from being thrown into water in a molten state.
- beaneries — Plural form of beanery.
- beanfeast — A beanfeast is a party or other social event.
- beanpoles — Plural form of beanpole.
- beanstalk — the stem of a bean plant
- bearnaise — rich sauce made from egg yolks, lemon juice or wine vinegar, butter, shallots, herbs, and seasoning