9-letter words containing n, a, b
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- bundaberg — a town in E Australia, near the E coast of Queensland: centre of a sugar-growing area, with a nearby deep-water port. Pop: 44 556 (2001)
- bundesrat — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level
- bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- bunkerage — the act of bunkering a vessel.
- buoyantly — in a happy, confident manner
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- burn rate — The burn rate of a startup company is a measure of how fast it uses up its capital before becoming profitable.
- burrawang — any of several Australian cycads of the genus Macrozamia, having an edible nut
- burundian — of or relating to Burundi or its inhabitants
- bush bean — any of various low, erect, bushy forms of the common garden bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
- bushelman — a person who alters or repairs garments; busheler.
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
- butenandt — Adolf Frederick Johann. 1903–95, German organic chemist. He shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1939) for his pioneering work on sex hormones
- by a nose — by the length of the animal's nose in horse racing, etc.
- by and by — presently or eventually
- by chance — Something that happens by chance was not planned by anyone.
- by nature — essentially or innately
- by-and-by — the future: to meet in the sweet by-and-by.
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byrd land — a part of Antarctica, east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea: claimed for the US by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in 1929, though all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- byzantine — Byzantine means related to or connected with the Byzantine Empire.
- byzantium — an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul
- cab stand — A cab stand is a place where taxis wait for passengers, for example, at an airport or outside a station.
- caballine — pertaining to a horse
- caballing — a small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority.
- cabernets — Plural form of cabernet.
- cabin boy — a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cabinmate — a person with whom one shares a cabin
- cabochons — Plural form of cabochon.
- cabstands — Plural form of cabstand.
- calabrian — of or relating to Calabria or its inhabitants
- cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- canalboat — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
- canberran — a native or inhabitant of Canberra
- cancelbot — a computer program that deletes unwanted mailings to internet usergroups
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- candy bar — A candy bar is a long, thin, sweet food, usually covered in chocolate.
- canebrake — a thicket of canes
- canebreak — Alternative spelling of canebrake.
- cannibals — Plural form of cannibal.
- canoeable — (of a river, etc) able to be navigated in a canoe
- canrobert — François Certain [frahn-swa ser-tan] /frɑ̃ˈswa sɛrˈtɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1809–95, French marshal.
- cantabank — an itinerant singer