7-letter words containing b, y, n
- budenny — Semën Mikhailovich [syi-myawn myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /syɪˈmyɔn myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1883–1973, Russian general in 1917 revolution and World War II.
- bunbury — to create a fictitious scenario that provides an excuse for avoiding unwanted engagements
- buoyant — If you are in a buoyant mood, you feel cheerful and behave in a lively way.
- buoying — Nautical. a distinctively shaped and marked float, sometimes carrying a signal or signals, anchored to mark a channel, anchorage, navigational hazard, etc., or to provide a mooring place away from the shore.
- burnaby — city in SW British Columbia, Canada; suburb of Vancouver: pop. 179,000
- burnley — an industrial town in NW England, in E Lancashire. Pop: 73 021 (2001)
- busying — actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime: busy with her work.
- buttony — like a button.
- butyrin — a colourless liquid ester or oil found in butter. It is formed from butyric acid and glycerine
- by hand — If you do something by hand, you do it using your hands rather than a machine.
- by name — When you mention someone or something by name, or address someone by name, you use their name.
- by-line — a line under the title of a newspaper or magazine article giving the author's name
- by-name — a secondary name; cognomen; surname.
- bygones — past; gone by; earlier; former: The faded photograph brought memories of bygone days.
- byliner — a person who writes articles with bylines
- byreman — a man who works in a byre
- byrnies — a coat of mail; hauberk.
- byronic — of, like, or characteristic of Byron or his writings; romantic, passionate, cynical, ironic, etc.
- byssine — made from fine flax
- bywoner — a poor tenant farmer
- danbury — city in SW Conn., near Bridgeport: pop. 75,000
- eyebank — a place in which corneas are stored for use in corneal grafts
- fanboys — Plural form of fanboy.
- flybane — A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene.
- gownboy — a foundationer schoolboy who wears a gown
- hayband — a rope made by twisting hay together
- hornsby — Rogers, 1896–1963, U.S. baseball player and manager.
- ignobly — of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base: his ignoble purposes.
- knobbly — Having lumps that give a misshapen appearance.
- knubbly — full of small protuberances.
- linkboy — Male servant or other attendant (regardless of age), employed to bear a torch or other light abroad at night.
- lyublin — Lublin.
- newbery — John, 1713–67, English publisher.
- newbury — a market town in West Berkshire unitary authority, S England: scene of a Parliamentarian victory (1643) and a Royalist victory (1644) during the Civil War; telecommunications, racecourse. Pop: 32 675 (2001)
- newsboy — a person, typically a boy, who sells or delivers newspapers.
- nonbody — (chiefly, philosophy) That which is not a body.
- notably — worthy of note or notice; noteworthy: a notable success; a notable theory.
- nybbles — Plural form of nybble.
- obeying — to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
- 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.
- raybans — a brand of sunglasses
- rayburn — Sam, 1882–1961, U.S. lawyer and political leader: Speaker of the House 1940–47, 1949–53, 1955–61.
- rybinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NNE of Moscow, on the Volga near the Rybinsk Reservoir. Also called Shcherbakov (1946–57)
- sabayon — zabaglione.
- sebundy — a militia
- skyborn — born in heaven
- soybean — a bushy Old World plant, Glycine max, of the legume family, grown in the U.S., chiefly for forage and soil improvement.
- standby — a staunch supporter or adherent; one who can be relied upon.
- sunbury — a city in E central Pennsylvania.
- swingby — act of spacecraft passing close to planet