9-letter words containing i, n, b
- belonging — secure relationship; affinity (esp in the phrase a sense of belonging)
- belt line — a transportation system partially or wholly surrounding a city, terminal, district, or port.
- ben nevis — a mountain in W Scotland, in the Grampian mountains: highest peak in Great Britain. Height: 1345 m (4413 ft)
- bendingly — in a curving direction or manner
- benedight — blessed
- benefited — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- benefiter — a person who derives benefit
- bengaline — a heavy corded fabric, esp silk with woollen or cotton cord
- beni suef — city in NE Egypt, on the Nile: pop. 152,000
- beni-suef — a city in NW Egypt on the Nile River.
- benighted — If you describe people or the place where they live as benighted, you think they are unfortunate or do not know anything.
- benighter — a person who keeps others in darkness
- benignant — kind; gracious, as a king to his subjects
- benignity — the quality of being benign; favourable attitude
- benitoite — a rare mineral, barium titanium silicate, BaTiSi 3 O 9 , occurring in blue hexagonal crystals exhibiting dichroism.
- benjamins — hundred-dollar bills
- benne oil — the edible oil obtained from sesame seeds
- bensulide — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 14 H 24 O 4 NPS 3 , used primarily to control crabgrass and broadleaf weeds.
- bentonite — a valuable clay, formed by the decomposition of volcanic ash, that swells as it absorbs water: used as a filler in the building, paper, and pharmaceutical industries
- benzamine — eucaine.
- benzenoid — similar to benzene
- benzidine — a grey or reddish poisonous crystalline powder that is used mainly in the manufacture of dyes, esp Congo red. Formula: NH2(C6H4)2NH2
- benzoline — unpurified benzene
- berberine — a yellow bitter-tasting alkaloid obtained from barberry and other plants and used medicinally, esp in tonics. Formula: C20H19NO5
- bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- berezniki — a city in E Russia: chemical industries. Pop: 169 000 (2005 est)
- berg wind — a hot dry wind in South Africa blowing from the plateau down to the coast
- 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.
- bernoulli — Daniel (danjɛl), son of Jean Bernoulli. 1700–82, Swiss mathematician and physicist, who developed an early form of the kinetic theory of gases and stated the principle of conservation of energy in fluid dynamics
- bernstein — Leonard. 1918–90, US conductor and composer, whose works include The Age of Anxiety (1949), the score of the musical West Side Story (1957), and Mass (1971)
- bertillon — Alphonse [al-fons,, -fonz;; French al-fawns] /ˈæl fɒns,, -fɒnz;; French alˈfɔ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1853–1914, French anthropologist: devised Bertillon system.
- beseeming — to be fit for or worthy of; become: conduct that beseems a gentleman.
- besetting — tempting, harassing, or assailing (esp in the phrase besetting sin)
- 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!
- bettering — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- bevelling — the inclination that one line or surface makes with another when not at right angles.
- bevin boy — (in Britain during World War II) a young man selected by ballot to work in a coal mine instead of doing conventional military service
- bhikkhuni — a fully ordained Buddhist nun
- bhikshuni — a female bhikshu; nun.
- bi-annual — occurring twice a year; semiannual.
- 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.
- biangular — having two angles or corners.
- bicentric — having two centres
- bick-iron — the tapered end of an anvil.
- bickering — to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
- biconcave — (of a lens) having concave faces on both sides; concavo-concave
- biconical — an object shaped like two cones with their bases together.