5-letter words containing b, n
- boyne — a river in the E Republic of Ireland, rising in the Bog of Allen and flowing northeast to the Irish Sea: William III of England defeated the deposed James II in a battle (Battle of the Boyne) on its banks in 1690, completing the overthrow of the Stuart cause in Ireland. Length: about 112 km (70 miles)
- bozen — German name of Bolzano (def 2).
- brain — Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body's activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain.
- brand — If someone is branded as something bad, people think they are that thing.
- brane — a hypothetical component of string theory
- brank — (esp of horses) to prance or strut
- brant — a small goose, Branta bernicla, that has a dark grey plumage and short neck and occurs in most northern coastal regions
- braun — Eva (ˈeːfa). 1910–45, Adolf Hitler's mistress, whom he married shortly before their suicides in 1945
- brawn — Brawn is physical strength.
- breen — a deep brownish green.
- brent — a borough of NW Greater London. Pop: 267 800 (2003 est). Area: 44 sq km (17 sq miles)
- brian — Havergal (ˈhævəɡəl). 1876–1972, English composer, who wrote 32 symphonies, including the large-scale Gothic Symphony (1919–27)
- brine — Brine is salty water, especially salty water that is used for preserving food.
- bring — If you bring someone or something with you when you come to a place, they come with you or you have them with you.
- brink — If you are on the brink of something, usually something important, terrible, or exciting, you are just about to do it or experience it.
- briny — of or resembling brine; salty
- bronc — bronco
- brond — a piece of burnt or burning wood
- bronx — northernmost borough of New York City, between the Harlem River & Long Island Sound: pop. 1,333,000
- broun — (Matthew) Heywood (Campbell) 1888–1939, U.S. journalist, essayist, and novelist.
- brown — Something that is brown is the colour of earth or of wood.
- bruhn — Erik (Belton Evers) 1928–86, Danish ballet dancer.
- bruin — a name for a bear, used in children's tales, fables, etc
- brung — a past participle and simple past tense of bring.
- brunn — German name of Brno.
- bruno — Franklin Roy, known as Frank. born 1961, British heavyweight boxer
- brunt — the main force or shock of a blow, attack, etc (esp in the phrase bear the brunt of)
- bryan — a masculine name
- bunce — a windfall or boom
- bunch — A bunch of people is a group of people who share one or more characteristics or who are doing something together.
- bunco — a swindle, esp one by confidence tricksters
- bunde — a short form of “German-American Volksbund,” a pro-Nazi organization in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s.
- bundt — a ring-shaped cake
- bundu — a largely uninhabited wild region far from towns
- bundy — a time clock
- bunin — Ivan Alekseyevich (iˈvan alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1870–1953, Russian novelist and poet; author of The Gentleman from San Francisco (1922)
- bunko — bunco
- bunny — A bunny or a bunny rabbit is a child's word for a rabbit.
- bunty — infected with bunt
- bunya — a tall dome-shaped Australian coniferous tree, Araucaria bidwillii, having edible cones (bunya nuts) and thickish flattened needles
- buran — a blizzard, with the wind blowing from the north and reaching gale force
- burin — a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp lozenge-shaped point, used for engraving furrows in metal, wood, or marble
- burns — Robert. 1759–96, Scottish lyric poet. His verse, written mostly in dialect, includes love songs, nature poetry, and satires. Auld Lang Syne and Tam o' Shanter are among his best known poems
- burnt — Burnt is a past tense and past participle of burn.
- buron — a public official perceived to be a hindrance to enterprise
- busan — a port in SE South Korea, on the Korea Strait: the second largest city and chief port of the country; industrial centre; two universities. Pop: 3 527 000 (2005 est)
- bwana — (in E Africa) a master, often used as a respectful form of address corresponding to sir
- byrne — Donn [don] /dɒn/ (Show IPA), Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald.
- byron — George Gordon, 6th Baron. 1788–1824, British Romantic poet, noted also for his passionate and disastrous love affairs. His major works include Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–18), and Don Juan (1819–24). He spent much of his life abroad and died while fighting for Greek independence
- caban — (Philippines) A grain measure equal to 3.47 cubic feet, used in the Philippine Islands.