9-letter words containing b, e, n, i
- balminess — mild and refreshing; soft; soothing: balmy weather.
- 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.
- banbridge — a district in S Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 43 083 (2003 est). Area: 442 sq km (170 sq miles)
- bandelier — Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840–1914, U.S. anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian, born in Switzerland.
- bandiness — the quality of being bandy
- bandished — Simple past tense and past participle of bandish.
- 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
- banisters — the railing and supporting balusters on a staircase; balustrade
- bankerish — resembling or befitting a banker, especially in being perceived as reserved and conservative in dress and demeanor: a model of bankerish decorum.
- bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert). born 1929, British athlete and doctor: first man to run a mile in under four minutes (1954)
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- barbering — The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair.
- barbitone — a long-acting barbiturate used medicinally, usually in the form of the sodium salt, as a sedative or hypnotic
- barbotine — a type of clay paste used in making decorated pottery
- barenboim — Daniel. born 1942, Israeli concert pianist and conductor, born in Argentina
- bargained — Simple past tense and past participle of bargain.
- bargainer — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barminess — the quality of being barmy; craziness
- barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- 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
- baseliner — a player who plays most of his or her shots from the back of court
- baselines — Plural form of baseline.
- bashed in — crushed or dented from a blow
- basicness — Quality or degree of being basic.
- basinlike — resembling a basin
- bassanite — (mineral) A saline evaporite, consisting of calcium sulphate, found at Vesuvius.
- bassinets — Plural form of bassinet.
- bastinade — bastinado.
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- batteling — Alternative form of battling.
- battening — to thrive by feeding; grow fat.
- 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
- 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.
- bc neliac — Version of NELIAC, post 1962. Sammet 1969, p.197.
- be big on — large, as in size, height, width, or amount: a big house; a big quantity.
- be in for — If you say that someone is in for a shock or a surprise, you mean that they are going to experience it.
- be pie on — to be keen on
- beaconing — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- 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
- beaneries — Plural form of beanery.