9-letter words containing n, a, b
- babylonia — the southern kingdom of ancient Mesopotamia: a great empire from about 2200–538 bc, when it was conquered by the Persians
- bacchanal — a follower of Bacchus
- bacchante — a priestess or female votary of Bacchus
- bacchants — Plural form of bacchant.
- back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
- back link — (hypertext) A link in one direction implied by the existence of an explicit link in the other direction.
- back nine — the holes of a golf course numbered 10 through 18, regarded as a unit
- back pain — pain that is felt in the back
- back vent — (in plumbing) a vent situated on the sewer side of a trap.
- back-wind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
- backbench — A backbench MP is a Member of Parliament who is not a minister and who does not hold an official position in his or her political party.
- backbends — Plural form of backbend.
- backboned — With a strong spine.
- backbones — Plural form of backbone.
- backdowns — Plural form of backdown.
- backhands — Plural form of backhand.
- backlands — Plural form of backland.
- backplane — A board to which the main circuit boards of a computer may be connected and that provides connections between them.
- backprint — The mark or impression left by a person's back having been pressed against a surface.
- backronym — an existing word turned into an acronym by creating an apt phrase whose initial letters match the word, as to help remember it or offer a theory of its origin. For example, rap has been said to be a backronym of “rhythm and poetry.”.
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- backswing — the movement of a club, bat, or racket backwards, away from the intended point of contact, in preparation for making a stroke
- bacon fat — fat made by rendering bacon
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- bad lands — a deeply eroded barren region of SW South Dakota and NW Nebraska
- bad thing — (jargon) (From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: Good Thing. British correspondents confirm that Bad Thing and Good Thing (and probably therefore Right Thing and Wrong Thing) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.
- bada-bing — an expression used to suggest that something can be done with no difficulty or delay
- badgering — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- badinages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badinage.
- badinerie — a name given in the 18th century to a type of quick, light movement in a suite
- badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
- baekeland — Leo Hendrik [lee-oh hen-drik;; Flemish ley-oh hen-drik] /ˈli oʊ ˈhɛn drɪk;; Flemish ˈleɪ oʊ ˈhɛn drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, U.S. chemist, born in Belgium: developed Bakelite.
- bagginess — The characteristic of being baggy.
- baigneuse — a day bed of the Empire period, having a back sloping and curving to form a rounded head and foot.
- baignoire — a theatre box on the lowest level
- bail bond — a surety bond (money or property) offered or deposited by a defendant or other persons to ensure the defendant's appearance at trial
- bairnlike — childlike
- baisemain — a kissing of the hand; thus, a sign of respect
- bajillion — an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount
- bakestone — a flat stone placed in or near an oven or fire, for baking cakes on
- bakhtaran — city in W Iran: pop. 561,000
- balancers — Plural form of balancer.
- balancing — the process of achieving or maintaining equilibrium
- balanitis — inflammation of the glans penis, usually due to infection
- balconied — That has a balcony attached.
- balconies — Plural form of balcony.
- baldachin — a richly ornamented silk and gold brocade
- baldaquin — Also, baudekin. Textiles. a silk brocade interwoven with gold or silver threads, used chiefly for ceremonial purposes.
- baldmoney — Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family.
- baldwin i — 1058–1118, crusader and first king of Jerusalem (1100–18), who captured Acre (1104), Beirut (1109), and Sidon (1110)