9-letter words containing b, i, n, o
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- 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
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- bronxites — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
- brookings — Robert Somers [suhm-erz] /ˈsʌm ərz/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- bufotoxin — a toxin obtained from the skin glands of the European toad, Bufa vulgaris.
- builddown — a planned numerical reduction, esp of nuclear weapons where, for every new weapon built, two or more older weapons are destroyed
- bump into — If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly.
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- bupropion — an antidepressant drug used to help people stop smoking
- burrowing — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- buteonine — of or relating to hawks
- bytownite — a rare plagioclase found in alkaline igneous rocks
- cabin boy — a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
- carbanion — a negatively charged organic ion in which most of the negative charge is localized on a carbon atom
- carbonari — a secret political society with liberal republican aims, originating in S Italy about 1811 and particularly engaged in the struggle for Italian unification
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- carbonize — to turn or be turned into carbon as a result of heating, fossilization, chemical treatment, etc
- cenobites — Plural form of cenobite.
- cenobitic — Of or pertaining to a cenobite.
- chin-bone — the anterior portion of the mandible, forming the prominence of the chin.
- city-born — born in a city.
- claiborne — a male given name.
- climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
- clip bond — a form of brickwork raking bond for a facing of all stretchers, in which the stretchers are tied in to the backing every few courses by diagonally set bricks that project from the backing into angles made by cutting off the concealed corners of the face brick.
- cobalamin — vitamin B12
- coenobite — a member of a religious order following a communal rule of life
- coenobium — a monastery or convent
- coinhabit — To inhabit together.
- colombian — Colombian means belonging or relating to Colombia or its people or culture.
- colubrine — of or resembling a snake
- columbian — of or relating to the United States
- columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
- combating — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combinate — combined
- combining — the process or an act of combining two or more things
- concubine — In former times, a concubine was a woman who lived with and had a sexual relationship with a man of higher social rank without being married to him.
- connubial — of or relating to marriage; conjugal
- conscribe — to conscript
- corbeling — the fashioning of corbels