9-letter words containing n, a, b
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- bondwoman — a female serf or slave
- bone meal — Bone meal is a substance made from animal bones which is used as a fertilizer.
- boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
- bonilasse — an attractive young woman
- boogerman — South Midland and Southern U.S. bogeyman.
- boogeyman — a frightening imaginary being, often one used as a threat in disciplining children
- boogieman — bogeyman.
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
- boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
- bostonian — a person from Boston
- botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- botulinal — of or relating to the bacterium Clostridium botulinum
- boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
- boundable — able to be bound or limited
- brabancon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a short, smooth coat.
- brabbling — to argue stubbornly about trifles; wrangle.
- bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
- bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
- bradenton — a city in W Florida.
- braincase — the part of the cranium that protects the brain
- braindead — having suffered brain death
- brainfart — an idea that a person voices without much consideration, such as during a brainstorming session
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- brainfuck — (language) An eight-instruction esoteric programming language created by Urban Müller. His goal was apparently to create a Turing-complete language with the smallest compiler ever, for the Amiga OS 2.0. He eventually reduced his compiler to under 200 bytes. A Brainfuck program has a pointer that moves within an array of 30000 bytes, initially all set to zero. The pointer initially points to the beginning of this array. The language has eight commands, each of which is represented as a single character, and which can be expressed in terms of C as follows: > ==> ++p; < ==> --p; + ==> ++*p; - ==> --*p; . ==> putchar(*p); , ==> *p = getchar(); [ ==> while (*p) { ] ==> } Brian Raiter's Brainfuck page.
- brainless — If you describe someone or something as brainless, you mean that you think they are stupid.
- brainsick — relating to or caused by insanity; crazy; mad
- 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.
- brainwash — If you brainwash someone, you force them to believe something by continually telling them that it is true, and preventing them from thinking about it properly.
- brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
- brainwork — intellectual effort
- brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
- brake van — the coach or vehicle from which the guard applies the brakes; guard's van
- brake-van — the caboose of a railway train.
- brakesman — a pithead winch operator
- brambling — a Eurasian finch, Fringilla montifringilla, with a speckled head and back and, in the male, a reddish brown breast and darker wings and tail
- bran loaf — a rectangular cake whose ingredients include bran and dried fruit
- bran mash — a food for horses made with bran and hot water, and sometimes including carrots, molasses, apples, etc
- branchery — a group or system of branches
- branchiae — the gills of an aquatic animal
- branchial — of or relating to the gills of an aquatic animal, esp a fish
- branching — the occurrence of several decay paths (branches) in the disintegration of a particular nuclide or the de-excitation of an excited atom. The branching fraction (nuclear) or branching ratio (atomic) is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides
- branchio- — gills
- branchlet — a small branch