9-letter words containing n, b, e
- blennioid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Blennioidea, a large suborder of small mainly marine spiny-finned fishes having an elongated body with reduced pelvic fins. The group includes the blennies, butterfish, and gunnel
- bleomycin — a glycopeptide antibiotic drug used in the treatment of cancer and Hodgkin's Disease
- blindheim — Blenheim
- blindless — (of a window) not being fitted with a blind
- blindness — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- blindside — If you say that you were blindsided by something, you mean that it surprised you in a negative way.
- blinkered — A blinkered view, attitude, or approach is narrow and does not take into account other people's opinions. A blinkered person has this kind of attitude.
- blondness — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- bloodline — A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors.
- blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
- blue funk — a state of great terror or loss of nerve
- blue john — a blue or purple fibrous variety of fluorspar occurring only in Derbyshire: used for vases, etc
- blue line — either of the two blue lines, parallel to the goal lines, that divide an ice hockey rink into three zones
- blue moon — If you say that something happens once in a blue moon, you are emphasizing that it does not happen very often at all.
- blue nile — a river in E Africa, rising in central Ethiopia as the Abbai and flowing southeast, then northwest to join the White Nile. Length: about 1530 km (950 miles)
- blue note — a flattened third or seventh, used frequently in the blues
- blue onyx — jasper stained blue in imitation of lapis lazuli.
- blue roan — a horse having a black coat sprinkled with white hairs
- bluejeans — jeans made of blue denim
- blueliner — a machine for making blueprints
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- bluestone — a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
- blundered — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blunderer — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blunthead — a frequent recreational user of marijuana
- bluntness — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- boanerges — a nickname applied by Jesus to James and John in Mark 3:17
- boat neck — a high slitlike neckline of a garment that extends onto the shoulders
- bobbejaan — a baboon
- bodements — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- bodenheim — Maxwell, 1892–1954, U.S. poet and novelist.
- body-line — denoting or relating to fast bowling aimed at the batsman's body
- boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
- bojangles — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
- bolognese — of or relating to Bologna or its inhabitants
- bombasine — bombazine.
- bombazeen — a twill fabric constructed of a silk or rayon warp and worsted filling, often dyed black for mourning wear.
- bombazine — a twilled fabric, esp one with a silk warp and worsted weft, formerly worn dyed black for mourning
- bombinate — to make a buzzing noise
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- bonderize — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- bondstone — a long stone or brick laid in a wall as a header
- bone cell — a cell found in bone in any of its functional states; an osteoblast, osteoclast, or osteocyte.
- bone idle — very idle; extremely lazy
- 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