7-letter words containing b, o, n, i
- niobate — any salt of niobic acid; columbate.
- niobite — The mineral columbite.
- niobium — a steel-gray metallic element resembling tantalum in its chemical properties; becomes a superconductor below 9 K; used chiefly in alloy steels. Symbol: Nb; atomic number: 41; atomic weight: 92.906; specific gravity: 8.4 at 20°C.
- niobous — Chemistry. containing trivalent niobium, as niobous chloride, NbCl 3 .
- no-bill — to fail to indict (a person): The grand jury no-billed the two officers in the slaying.
- nobbier — Comparative form of nobby.
- nombril — the point in an escutcheon between the middle of the base and the fess point.
- o'brien — Edna, born 1930, Irish novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
- obconic — conical, with the attachment at the pointed end.
- obelion — an area of the skull where the sagittal suture meets the parietal foramina
- oberlin — Jean Frédéric [French zhahn frey-dey-reek] /French ʒɑ̃ freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1740–1826, Alsatian clergyman.
- obeying — to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
- obtains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obtain.
- omnibus — bus1 (def 1).
- omnitab — Statistical analysis and desk calculator. Version: OMNITAB II.
- orbison — Roy, 1936–88, U.S. rock and roll singer and songwriter.
- ouabain — a glycoside occurring as a white, crystalline powder, C 2 9 H 4 4 O 1 2 , obtained from the seeds of a shrub, Strophanthus gratus, or from the wood of trees of the genus Acokanthera, and used in medicine chiefly as a cardiac stimulant.
- oubangi — French name of Ubangi.
- pibgorn — an ancient wind instrument of Wales resembling the hornpipe.
- pin boy — (formerly) a person stationed in the sunken area of a bowling alley behind the pins who places the pins in the proper positions, removes pins that have been knocked down, and returns balls to the bowlers.
- pinbone — the hipbone, especially in a four-footed animal.
- probing — to search into or examine thoroughly; question closely: to probe one's conscience.
- rabboni — a respectful Jewish title or form of address (usually given to a rabbi) meaning master
- rainbow — a bow or arc of prismatic colors appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of rain. Compare primary rainbow, secondary rainbow.
- ribbons — ragged strips or shreds
- ribston — a variety of winter apple, full name ribston pippin apple, grown first in Normandy and imported to Yorkshire
- robbing — to take something from (someone) by unlawful force or threat of violence; steal from.
- robbins — Frederick C(hapman) 1916–2003, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1954.
- robinia — any tree of the leguminous genus Robinia, esp the locust tree
- rubicon — a river in N Italy flowing E into the Adriatic. 15 miles (24 km) long: in crossing this ancient boundary between Cisalpine Gaul and Italy, to march against Pompey in 49 b.c., Julius Caesar made a major military commitment.
- sobbing — to weep with a convulsive catching of the breath.
- sorbian — of or relating to the Wends or their language.
- sorbing — to gather on a surface either by absorption, adsorption, or a combination of the two processes.
- subjoin — to add at the end, as of something said or written; append.
- taborin — a small tabor.
- tombing — an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
- twibbon — a company which provides users with an icon which they can paste over an avatar or profile photo on a social networking site, indicating the user's support for a given cause, group, brand, etc.
- unibody — a vehicle in which the frame and body are one unit
- unibrow — a pair of eyebrows that appear to be connected because of some extra hair growing in the space between them: He had very bushy eyebrows, almost a unibrow.
- wingbow — a distinctive band of colour marking the wing of a bird
- wombing — Present participle of womb.
- woodbin — a bin, box, or the like for storing wood fuel.
- zamboni — a tractorlike machine used on an ice skating rink to smooth the ice
- zenobia — (Septimia Bathzabbai) died after a.d. 272, queen of Palmyra in Syria a.d. 267–272.
- zorbing — (originally New Zealand) A sport in which a participant is secured inside a zorb and rolled downhill.