6-letter words containing b, n
- beeing — Archaic spelling of being.
- beenah — understanding; insight
- beento — a person who has resided in Britain, esp during part of his or her education
- beeton — Isabella Mary, known as Mrs Beeton. 1836–65, British cookery writer, author of The Book of Household Management (1861)
- befana — (in Italian folklore) an ugly good fairy who brings gifts to good children on Epiphany eve
- begins — to proceed to perform the first or earliest part of some action; commence; start: The story begins with their marriage.
- begnaw — to gnaw at
- begone — go away!
- beguin — a Beghard.
- begunk — a deceiving trick
- behind — If something is behind a thing or person, it is on the other side of them from you, or nearer their back rather than their front.
- behmen — Jakob [jey-kuh b] /ˈdʒeɪ kəb/ (Show IPA), Böhme, Jakob.
- beknot — to tie a knot or knots in
- belong — If something belongs to you, you own it.
- belsen — a village in NE Germany: with Bergen, the site of a Nazi concentration camp (1943–45)
- belton — a town in W Missouri.
- bemean — to make mean; demean; debase (usually used reflexively).
- bemoan — If you bemoan something, you express sorrow or dissatisfaction about it.
- bename — to name; call by name.
- benaud — Richard, known as Richie. 1930–2015, Australian cricketer; played in 63 test matches, 28 as captain; an all-rounder, he was the first to score 2000 runs and take 200 wickets in tests; TV commentator on the sport for many decades
- benbow — John. 1653–1702, English admiral, noted esp for his heroic death during the War of the Spanish Succession
- benchy — (of a hillside) hollowed out in benches
- benday — to produce using the Ben Day process
- bended — bend1
- bender — If someone goes on a bender, they drink a very large amount of alcohol.
- beneba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- bengal — a former province of NE India, in the great deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers: in 1947 divided into West Bengal (belonging to India) and East Bengal (Bangladesh)
- bengbu — a city in E China, in Anhui province. Pop: 779 000 (2005 est)
- benign — You use benign to describe someone who is kind, gentle, and harmless.
- benita — a female given name.
- bennet — herb bennet.
- benoit — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (or Peter) Léonard Léopold [ley-aw-nar ley-aw-pawld] /leɪ ɔˈnar leɪ ɔˈpɔld/ (Show IPA), 1834–1901, Belgian composer.
- benoni — a city in NE South Africa: gold mines. Pop: 94 341 (2001)
- benson — E(dward) F(rederic). 1867–1940, British writer, noted esp for a series of comic novels featuring the characters Mapp and Lucia
- benton — Thomas Hart. 1889–1975, US painter of rural life; a leader of the American Regionalist painters in the 1930s
- benumb — to make numb or powerless; deaden physical feeling in, as by cold
- benzal — a transparent crystalline substance
- benzil — a yellowish organic compound
- benzin — a colorless, volatile, flammable, liquid mixture of various hydrocarbons, obtained in the distillation of petroleum, and used in cleaning, dyeing, etc.
- benzo- — indicating a benzene ring fused to another ring in a polycyclic compound
- benzol — a crude form of benzene, containing toluene, xylene, and other hydrocarbons, obtained from coal tar or coal gas and used as a fuel
- benzyl — of, consisting of, or containing the monovalent group C6H5CH2–
- berean — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- bergen — a large rucksack with a capacity of over 50 litres
- bering — Vitus (ˈviːtʊs). 1681–1741, Danish navigator, who explored the N Pacific for the Russians and discovered Bering Island and the Bering Strait
- berlin — the capital of Germany (1871–1945 and from 1990), formerly divided (1945–90) into the eastern sector, capital of East Germany, and the western sectors, which formed an exclave in East German territory closely affiliated with West Germany: a wall dividing the sectors was built in 1961 by the East German authorities to stop the flow of refugees from east to west; demolition of the wall began in 1989 and the city was formally reunited in 1990: formerly (1618–1871) the capital of Brandenburg and Prussia. Pop: 3 388 477 (2003 est)
- bernie — a male given name, form of Bernard.
- berwyn — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- besant — Annie, née Wood. 1847–1933, British theosophist, writer, and political reformer in England and India
- besing — to sing about joyfully