9-letter words containing b, i, s
- blindness — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- blindside — If you say that you were blindsided by something, you mean that it surprised you in a negative way.
- blinglish — a form of spoken English that blends British English with Black youth slang
- bliss out — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- bliss-16c — (language) DEC's cross-compiler equivalent of BLISS-11.
- blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
- blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
- bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
- blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
- blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
- blue lips — a plant, Collinsia grandiflora, of the figwort family, of western central North America, having short-stalked flowers with the upper lip purple or white and the lower lip blue or violet.
- blueshift — a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system
- boa vista — a town in N Brazil, capital of the state of Roraima, on the Rio Branco. Pop: 275 000 (2005 est)
- boatswain — a petty officer on a merchant ship or a warrant officer on a warship who is responsible for the maintenance of the ship and its equipment
- bobsleigh — A bobsleigh is a vehicle with long thin strips of metal fixed to the bottom, which is used for racing downhill on ice.
- bobsy-die — fuss; confusion; pandemonium (esp in the phrases kick up bobsy-die, play bobsy-die)
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- bokassa i — original name Jean Bedel Bokassa. 1921–96, president of the Central African Republic (1972–76); emperor of the renamed Central African Empire from 1976 until overthrown in 1979
- bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- bomb site — A bomb site is an empty area where a bomb has destroyed all the buildings.
- bombasine — bombazine.
- bombastic — If you describe someone as bombastic, you are criticizing them for trying to impress other people by saying things that sound impressive but have little meaning.
- bombsight — a mechanical or electronic device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
- bonilasse — an attractive young woman
- bonniness — the quality of being bonny
- bony fish — any fish of the class Osteichthyes, including most of the extant species, having a skeleton of bone rather than cartilage
- booboisie — a group or social class considered to be ignorant or uncultured
- book list — a list of books, especially a list of recommended or required readings.
- boot disk — (operating system) The magnetic disk (usually a hard disk) from which an operating system kernel is loaded (or "bootstrapped"). This second phase in system start-up is performed by a simple bootstrap loader program held in ROM, possibly configured by data stored in some form of writable non-volatile storage. Some operating systems, notably SunOS and Solaris, can be configured to boot from a network rather than from disk. Such a system can thus run as a diskless workstation.
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- boris iii — 1894–1943, king of Bulgaria 1918–43.
- boskiness — the quality of being bosky
- boskopoid — of, relating to, or characteristic of Boskop man or the culture or habitat of Boskop man.
- bossiness — given to ordering people about; overly authoritative; domineering.
- bostonian — a person from Boston
- botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
- bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
- bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
- boxercise — a system of sustained exercises combining boxing movements with aerobic activities
- braillist — a person who transcribes or creates Braille
- braincase — the part of the cranium that protects the brain
- brainless — If you describe someone or something as brainless, you mean that you think they are stupid.
- brainsick — relating to or caused by insanity; crazy; mad
- brainstem — the stalklike part of the brain consisting of the medulla oblongata, the midbrain, and the pons Varolii
- brainwash — If you brainwash someone, you force them to believe something by continually telling them that it is true, and preventing them from thinking about it properly.
- brash ice — small, floating fragments of sea ice or river ice.
- brasilein — brazilein
- brasserie — A brasserie is a small and usually cheap restaurant or bar.