9-letter words containing i, b, a, n, e
- becalming — Present participle of becalm.
- bedaubing — Present participle of bedaub.
- befalling — A happening; occurrence; chance; event.
- beggaring — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- beguinage — a convent for members of the Beguine sisterhood
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone
- bengaline — a heavy corded fabric, esp silk with woollen or cotton cord
- benignant — kind; gracious, as a king to his subjects
- benjamins — hundred-dollar bills
- benzamine — eucaine.
- bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
- bernhardi — Friedrich A. J. von [free-drikh fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1849–1930, German general.
- beta iron — a nonmagnetic allotrope of pure iron stable between 770°C and 910°C
- beta line — beta (def 6).
- bethankit — (used as part of a grace spoken before a meal) God be thanked!
- bi-endian — Silicon schizophrenia. Processors and other chips that have can be switched to work in big-endian or little-endian mode. The PowerPC chip has this ability, which allows it to run the little-endian Windows NT, or the big-endian Mac OS/PPC.
- biconcave — (of a lens) having concave faces on both sides; concavo-concave
- bidentate — having two teeth or toothlike parts or processes
- bigeminal — happening in pairs
- biguanide — any of a class of compounds some of which are used in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes
- bike lane — A bike lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by people riding bicycles.
- bilineate — marked with two usually parallel lines.
- bin laden — Osama (əʊˈsɑːmə). 1957–2011, Saudi-born leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network: presumed architect of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11 2001. Killed by US Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
- binervate — (of leaves) having two longitudinal ribs
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- bioparent — a biological parent
- bioweapon — Bioweapons are biological weapons.
- bipinnate — (of pinnate leaves) having the leaflets themselves divided into smaller leaflets
- birlieman — a judge dealing with local law
- birthname — a name given at birth
- bit plane — (graphics) (Or "bitplane") The memory in a graphic display device which holds a complete one-bit-per-pixel image. Several bit planes may be used in conjunction to give more bits per pixel or to overlay several images or mask one with another. "Bit plane" may be used as a synonym for "bitmap", though the latter suggests the data itself rather than the memory and also suggests a graphics file format.
- bivalence — the semantic principle that there are exactly two truth values, so that every meaningful statement is either true or false
- bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
- bombasine — bombazine.
- bombazine — a twilled fabric, esp one with a silk warp and worsted weft, formerly worn dyed black for mourning
- bombinate — to make a buzzing noise
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- bonilasse — an attractive young woman
- boogieman — bogeyman.
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- braincase — the part of the cranium that protects the brain
- braindead — having suffered brain death
- brainless — If you describe someone or something as brainless, you mean that you think they are stupid.
- brainstem — the stalklike part of the brain consisting of the medulla oblongata, the midbrain, and the pons Varolii
- braintree — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.