9-letter words containing b, i, s, n
- burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
- burnsides — thick side whiskers worn with a moustache and clean-shaven chin
- bush-line — the contour at which the growth of the bush ceases
- bushiness — a bushy quality or state
- businessy — of, relating to, typical of, or suitable for the world of commercial or industrial business
- bustiness — the state of being busty
- buttinski — a person who interferes in the affairs of others; meddler.
- buttinsky — a busybody
- 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.
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- cannibals — Plural form of cannibal.
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- cenobites — Plural form of cenobite.
- conscribe — to conscript
- corncribs — Plural form of corncrib.
- disabling — Present participle of disable.
- disbanded — to break up or dissolve (an organization): They disbanded the corporation.
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
- 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.
- disrobing — Present participle of disrobe.
- drubbings — Plural form of drubbing.
- dubliners — a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce.
- dysbindin — a gene associated with schizophrenia
- embossing — Present participle of emboss.
- escribano — a clerk or scribe
- fabianism — the theories of economic and social reform advocated by the Fabian Society.
- fairbanks — Charles Warren, 1852–1918, political leader: vice president of the U.S. 1905–09.
- fibrinous — the insoluble protein end product of blood coagulation, formed from fibrinogen by the action of thrombin in the presence of calcium ions.
- firstborn — first in the order of birth; eldest.
- fishbones — Plural form of fishbone.
- fumblings — Plural form of fumbling.
- funabashi — a city in E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay.
- fungibles — Plural form of fungible.
- gabbiness — The quality of being gabby.
- gainsboro — A light bluish grey colour.
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- garblings — Plural form of garbling.
- globulins — Plural form of globulin.
- grabbings — Plural form of grabbing.
- gynobasic — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- hairbands — Plural form of hairband.
- handbasin — Washbasin.
- handbills — Plural form of handbill.
- 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.
- hindlimbs — Plural form of hindlimb alternative spelling of hind limbs.
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- hornbills — Plural form of hornbill.