9-letter words containing b, e, n, s
- by a nose — by the length of the animal's nose in horse racing, etc.
- by design — If something happens or is done by design, someone does it deliberately, rather than by accident.
- by inches — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- cabernets — Plural form of cabernet.
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- cenobites — Plural form of cenobite.
- conscribe — to conscript
- constable — In Britain and some other countries, a constable is a police officer of the lowest rank.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- debunkers — Plural form of debunker.
- debutants — Plural form of debutant.
- deskbound — doing sedentary work; working exclusively at a desk.
- disbanded — to break up or dissolve (an organization): They disbanded the corporation.
- disburden — to remove a burden from; rid of a burden.
- disenable — to deprive of ability; make unable; prevent.
- disentomb — to remove from the tomb; disinter.
- downbeats — Plural form of downbeat.
- dubliners — a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce.
- dunstable — John, c1390–1453, English composer.
- eastbound — traveling, proceeding, or headed east: an eastbound train.
- emboldens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embolden.
- embossing — Present participle of emboss.
- en brosse — (of the hair) cut very short so that the hair stands up stiffly
- encumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encumber.
- endoblast — Entoblast.
- enfeebles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfeeble.
- ensembles — Plural form of ensemble.
- entoblast — Any of the embryonic blastomeres that develop into the endoderm.
- escribano — a clerk or scribe
- fishbones — Plural form of fishbone.
- flensburg — a port in N Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein: taken from Denmark by Prussia in 1864; voted to remain German in 1920. Pop: 85 300 (2003 est)
- fungibles — Plural form of fungible.
- gabbiness — The quality of being gabby.
- gaberones — former name of Gaborone.
- gernsback — Hugo, 1884–1967, U.S. publisher and inventor, born in Belgium: a pioneer in science-fiction publishing.
- habaneras — Plural form of habanera.
- handbells — Plural form of handbell.
- hansberry — Lorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.
- headbands — Plural form of headband.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- honeybees — Plural form of honeybee.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- husbanded — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- iceblinks — Plural form of iceblink.
- in-basket — in-box.
- incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.