6-letter words containing b, n
- beslan — a town in the North Ossetian Republic in Russia: scene of a massacre in 2004 when Chechen extremists held a school hostage, leading to a siege in which 344 people were killed. Pop: 35 550 (2002)
- besnow — to whiten
- besoin — need
- betony — a Eurasian plant, Stachys (or Betonica) officinalis, with a spike of reddish-purple flowers, formerly used in medicine and dyeing: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- beyond — If something is beyond a place or barrier, it is on the other side of it.
- bezant — a medieval Byzantine gold coin
- bhajan — the singing of devotional songs and hymns
- bhangi — a Hindu scavenger who belongs to one of the untouchable castes.
- bhavan — (in India) a large house or building
- bhindi — the okra as used in Indian cooking: its green pods are eaten as vegetables
- bhungi — bhangi.
- bhutan — a kingdom in central Asia: disputed by Tibet, China, India, and Britain since the 18th century but most closely connected with India; contains inaccessible stretches of the E Himalayas in the north. Official language: Dzongka; Nepali is also spoken. Official religion: Mahayana Buddhist. Currencies: ngultrum and Indian rupee. Capital: Thimbu. Pop: 725 296 (2013 est). Area: about 46 600 sq km (18 000 sq miles)
- bianca — a female given name: from an Italian word meaning “white.”.
- bianco — Mon·te [mawn-te] /ˈmɔn tɛ/ (Show IPA). Italian name of Mont Blanc.
- bicone — an object shaped like two cones with their bases together.
- bicorn — having two horns or hornlike parts
- bicron — a billionth part of a metre
- bid in — (in an auction) to outbid all previous offers for (one's own property) to retain ownership or increase the final selling price
- bidden — Bidden is a past participle of bid2.
- bident — an instrument with two prongs
- biding — Archaic. to endure; bear.
- bienne — Biel
- biffin — a variety of red cooking apple
- big on — enthusiastic about
- biggin — a plain close-fitting cap, often tying under the chin, worn in the Middle Ages and by children in the 17th century
- bignum — (programming) /big'nuhm/ (Originally from MIT MacLISP) A multiple-precision computer representation for very large integers. Most computer languages provide a type of data called "integer", but such computer integers are usually limited in size; usually they must be smaller than 2^31 (2,147,483,648) or (on a bitty box) 2^15 (32,768). If you want to work with numbers larger than that, you have to use floating-point numbers, which are usually accurate to only six or seven decimal places. Computer languages that provide bignums can perform exact calculations on very large numbers, such as 1000! (the factorial of 1000, which is 1000 times 999 times 998 times ... times 2 times 1). For example, this value for 1000! was computed by the MacLISP system using bignums: 40238726007709377354370243392300398571937486421071 46325437999104299385123986290205920442084869694048 00479988610197196058631666872994808558901323829669 94459099742450408707375991882362772718873251977950 59509952761208749754624970436014182780946464962910 56393887437886487337119181045825783647849977012476 63288983595573543251318532395846307555740911426241 74743493475534286465766116677973966688202912073791 43853719588249808126867838374559731746136085379534 52422158659320192809087829730843139284440328123155 86110369768013573042161687476096758713483120254785 89320767169132448426236131412508780208000261683151 02734182797770478463586817016436502415369139828126 48102130927612448963599287051149649754199093422215 66832572080821333186116811553615836546984046708975 60290095053761647584772842188967964624494516076535 34081989013854424879849599533191017233555566021394 50399736280750137837615307127761926849034352625200 01588853514733161170210396817592151090778801939317 81141945452572238655414610628921879602238389714760 88506276862967146674697562911234082439208160153780 88989396451826324367161676217916890977991190375403 12746222899880051954444142820121873617459926429565 81746628302955570299024324153181617210465832036786 90611726015878352075151628422554026517048330422614 39742869330616908979684825901254583271682264580665 26769958652682272807075781391858178889652208164348 34482599326604336766017699961283186078838615027946 59551311565520360939881806121385586003014356945272 24206344631797460594682573103790084024432438465657 24501440282188525247093519062092902313649327349756 55139587205596542287497740114133469627154228458623 77387538230483865688976461927383814900140767310446 64025989949022222176590433990188601856652648506179 97023561938970178600408118897299183110211712298459 01641921068884387121855646124960798722908519296819 37238864261483965738229112312502418664935314397013 74285319266498753372189406942814341185201580141233 44828015051399694290153483077644569099073152433278 28826986460278986432113908350621709500259738986355 42771967428222487575867657523442202075736305694988 25087968928162753848863396909959826280956121450994 87170124451646126037902930912088908694202851064018 21543994571568059418727489980942547421735824010636 77404595741785160829230135358081840096996372524230 56085590370062427124341690900415369010593398383577 79394109700277534720000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000.
- biking — Informal. a bicycle. a motorbike. a motorcycle.
- bikini — A bikini is a two-piece swimming costume worn by women.
- bilian — a type of ironwood from Borneo
- billon — an alloy consisting of gold or silver and a base metal, usually copper, used esp for coinage
- bimane — a bimanous animal.
- binary — Binary describes something that has two different parts.
- binate — occurring in two parts or in pairs
- binchy — Maeve (meɪˈɪv). 1940–2012, Irish novelist and journalist; her bestselling novels include Circle of Friends (1990) and Quentins (2002)
- binder — A binder is a hard cover with metal rings inside, which is used to hold loose pieces of paper.
- bindle — a small bundle of possessions carried by a homeless person
- bingen — a town in W Germany on the Rhine: wine trade and tourist centre. Pop: 24 716 (2003 est)
- binger — a person addicted to crack cocaine
- binghi — an Aboriginal person
- bingle — a minor crash or upset, as in a car or on a surfboard
- binhex — (file format) A Macintosh format for representing a binary file using only printable characters. The file is converted to lines of letters, numbers and punctuation. Because BinHex files are simply text they can be sent through most electronic mail systems and stored on most computers. However the conversion to text makes the file larger, so it takes longer to transmit a file in BinHex format than if the file was represented some other way. See also BinHex 4.0, uuencode.
- biniou — a small high-pitched Breton bagpipe
- binnig — Gerd (Karl). born 1947, German physicist: shared the Nobel prize for physics (1986) for work on the superconductivity of semiconductors and development of the scanning tunnelling microscope
- binocs — binoculars
- binyon — (Robert) Laurence. 1869–1943, British poet and art historian, best known for his elegiac war poems "For the Fallen" (1914) and "The Burning of the Leaves" (1944)
- biogen — a hypothetical protein assumed to be the basis of the formation and functioning of body cells and tissues
- biondi — Matt(hew) born 1965, U.S. swimmer.
- bionic — In science fiction books or films, a bionic person is someone who has special powers, such as being exceptionally strong or having exceptionally good sight, because parts of their body have been replaced by electronic machinery.
- biotin — a vitamin of the B complex, abundant in egg yolk and liver, deficiency of which causes dermatitis and loss of hair. Formula: C10H16N2O3S
- birken — relating to the birch tree