8-letter words containing n, a, b
- banneret — a knight who was entitled to command other knights and men-at-arms under his own banner
- bannerol — banderole
- bannocks — Plural form of bannock.
- banoffee — a filling for a pie, consisting of toffee and banana
- banquets — Plural form of banquet.
- banshees — Plural form of banshee.
- banstead — a town in S England, in NE Surrey. Pop: 19 332 (2001)
- bantengs — Plural form of banteng.
- bantered — Simple past tense and past participle of banter.
- banterer — One who banters.
- bantings — Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
- bantling — a young child; brat
- banville — Théodore de (teɔdɔr də). 1823–91, French poet, who anticipated the Parnassian school in his perfection of form and command of rhythm
- banxring — a small tree-dwelling and insectivorous animal, Tupaia, resembling a squirrel, native to Java and Sumatra
- banyalla — Victorian box.
- bar line — the vertical line marking the boundary between one bar and the next
- bar none — You use bar none to add emphasis to a statement that someone or something is the best of their kind.
- barangay — The smallest administrative division in the Philippines; a village, district, or ward.
- barbacan — barbican.
- barbican — a walled outwork or tower to protect a gate or drawbridge of a fortification
- barchans — Plural form of barchan.
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- barebone — a very thin person whose bones show through the skin
- baregine — a whitish, mucilaginous substance found in the thermal waters of Barèges in France, considered to have healing properties
- barehand — to field (the ball) with one's bare hands rather than one's glove
- bareland — (of a croft) having no house attached
- bareness — without covering or clothing; naked; nude: bare legs.
- bargains — Plural form of bargain.
- barge in — If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
- bargeman — a man who operates, or works aboard, a barge
- bargemen — Plural form of bargeman.
- baritone — In music, a baritone is a man with a fairly deep singing voice that is lower than that of a tenor but higher than that of a bass.
- barkings — Plural form of barking.
- barn egg — an egg laid by a chicken that is allowed to move freely within a barn
- barn owl — any owl of the genus Tyto, esp T. alba, having a pale brown and white plumage, long slender legs, and a heart-shaped face: family Tytonidae
- barnabas — original name Joseph. a Cypriot Levite who supported Saint Paul in his apostolic work (Acts 4:36, 37). Feast day: June 11
- barnacle — Barnacles are small shellfish that fix themselves tightly to rocks and the bottoms of boats.
- barnardo — Dr Thomas John. 1845–1905, British philanthropist, who founded homes for destitute children
- barndoor — The large door of a barn.
- barnlike — resembling a barn
- barnsley — an industrial town in N England, in Barnsley unitary authority, South Yorkshire. Pop: 71 599 (2001)
- barnwood — aged and weathered boards, especially those salvaged from dismantled barns: The den was paneled in barnwood.
- barnyard — On a farm, the barnyard is the area in front of or next to a barn.
- baronage — barons collectively
- baroness — A baroness is a woman who is a member of the lowest rank of the nobility, or who is the wife of a baron.
- baronets — Plural form of baronet.
- baronial — If you describe a house or room as baronial, you mean that it is large, impressive, and old-fashioned in appearance, and looks as if it belongs to someone from the upper classes.
- baronies — Plural form of barony.
- baronize — to make or create (someone) a baron; confer the rank of baron upon.
- barracan — any of various thick, strong fabrics