8-letter words containing b, i, n
- nubility — (of a young woman) suitable for marriage, especially in regard to age or physical development; marriageable.
- nubilous — cloudy or foggy.
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- nykøbing — a port in Denmark, on the W coast of Falster Island. Pop: 16 784 (2004 est)
- obedient — obeying or willing to obey; complying with or submissive to authority: an obedient son.
- obeisant — a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior; a bow, curtsy, or other similar gesture.
- oblation — the offering to God of the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist.
- obligant — a person who promises or is obliged to pay a sum or carry out a task
- obliging — willing or eager to do favors, offer one's services, etc.; accommodating: The clerk was most obliging.
- oblivion — the state of being completely forgotten or unknown: a former movie star now in oblivion.
- obsidian — a volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark but transparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture.
- obtained — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- obtainer — One who obtains.
- olibanum — frankincense.
- openbill — Either of two species of bird in the genus Anastomus of the stork family Ciconiidae, with a distinctive gap between the mandibles of the closed bill.
- opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
- orbiting — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- ovenbird — an American warbler, Seiurus aurocapillus, that builds an oven-shaped nest of leaves, twigs, etc., on the forest floor.
- overbind — To bind or restrict to an excessive extent.
- paintbox — container of artist's colours
- panbroil — to cook in a pan with little fat or moisture
- parnaiba — a seaport in NE Brazil.
- pebbling — a small, rounded stone, especially one worn smooth by the action of water.
- phubbing — to ignore (a person or one's surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me? I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
- pin bone — a hip bone on a cow, horse or similar animal, that sticks out
- pin-ball — any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.
- pinatubo — Mount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
- pinchbug — a stag beetle
- pintable — a pinball machine
- plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
- plumb in — When someone plumbs in a device such as a washing machine, toilet, or bath, they connect it to the water and waste pipes in a building.
- plumbing — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- polabian — a member of a Slavic people who once lived in the Elbe River basin and on the Baltic coast of northern Germany.
- publican — Chiefly British. a person who owns or manages a tavern; the keeper of a pub.
- pudibund — prudish or shameful
- purblind — nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
- quiberon — a peninsula in NW France, on the S coast of Brittany: British naval victory over the French 1759. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- rabatine — a type of collar or cape worn over the shoulders
- rabbanim — master; teacher (used as a term of address and title of respect for a person ranking higher than a rabbi).
- rabbinic — the Hebrew language as used by rabbis in post-Biblical times.
- rabbling — a tool or mechanically operated device used for stirring or mixing a charge in a roasting furnace.
- rainband — a dark band in the solar spectrum caused by water vapor in the atmosphere.
- rainbird — any of several birds, especially the black-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus) and the yellow-billed cuckoo (C. americanus), that are said to call frequently before a rainstorm.
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association
- rambling — aimlessly wandering.
- ratisbon — Regensburg.
- re-begin — to begin (something) again
- rebating — a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
- renminbi — the currency of the People's Republic of China, the basic unit of which is the yuan.
- reobtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.