9-letter words containing n, a, s
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- bonilasse — an attractive young woman
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- 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
- braincase — the part of the cranium that protects the brain
- 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
- 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.
- brakesman — a pithead winch operator
- bran mash — a food for horses made with bran and hot water, and sometimes including carrots, molasses, apples, etc
- brandless — having or displaying no brand
- brashness — impertinent; impudent; tactless: a brash young man.
- brasilein — brazilein
- braveness — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- broadness — the state or character of being broad: the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- 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
- 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
- by a nose — by the length of the animal's nose in horse racing, etc.
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- c rations — tinned food formerly issued in packs to US soldiers
- c-spanner — a sickle-shaped spanner having a projection at the end of the curve, used for turning large narrow nuts that have an indentation into which the projection on the spanner fits
- cab stand — A cab stand is a place where taxis wait for passengers, for example, at an airport or outside a station.
- cabernets — Plural form of cabernet.
- cabochons — Plural form of cabochon.
- cabstands — Plural form of cabstand.
- caesarean — of or relating to any of the Caesars, esp Julius Caesar
- caesarian — of or relating to a Cesarean.
- caesionid — (zoology) Any member of the Caesionidae.
- cagelings — Plural form of cageling.
- cageyness — the quality of being cagey
- caithness — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland, now part of Highland
- calcaneus — the largest tarsal bone, forming the heel in man
- calendars — Plural form of calendar.
- calenders — Plural form of calender.
- calescent — increasing in heat
- calfskins — Plural form of calfskin.
- call sign — A call sign is the letters and numbers which identify a person, vehicle, or organization that is broadcasting on the radio or sending messages by radio.
- callusing — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.