9-letter words containing b, e, n, i
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- bonderize — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
- bone idle — very idle; extremely lazy
- bonetired — completely exhausted
- bonilasse — an attractive young woman
- bonne foi — sincerity.
- bonnibell — a pretty girl
- bonniness — the quality of being bonny
- boogieing — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- boogieman — bogeyman.
- bordering — the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- boskiness — the quality of being bosky
- bossiness — given to ordering people about; overly authoritative; domineering.
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- boyfriend — Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship.
- braincase — the part of the cranium that protects the brain
- braindead — having suffered brain death
- brainless — If you describe someone or something as brainless, you mean that you think they are stupid.
- brainstem — the stalklike part of the brain consisting of the medulla oblongata, the midbrain, and the pons Varolii
- braintree — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
- branchiae — the gills of an aquatic animal
- brasilein — brazilein
- brazilein — a red crystalline solid obtained by the oxidation of brazilin and used as a dye. Formula: C16H12O5
- breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- bread bin — A bread bin is a wooden, metal, or plastic container for storing bread.
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- breeching — the strap of a harness that passes behind a horse's haunches
- breeze in — a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
- brineless — without brine
- briskness — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- brokering — the work of a broker or brokerage
- bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
- bromeosin — eosin (def 1).
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- bronxites — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
- brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
- budgeting — financial planning
- buffering — temporary storage of data
- buffeting — response of an aircraft structure to buffet, esp an irregular oscillation of the tail