9-letter words containing n, b, o
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- chin-bone — the anterior portion of the mandible, forming the prominence of the chin.
- city-born — born in a city.
- claiborne — a male given name.
- climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
- clip bond — a form of brickwork raking bond for a facing of all stretchers, in which the stretchers are tied in to the backing every few courses by diagonally set bricks that project from the backing into angles made by cutting off the concealed corners of the face brick.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- clubwoman — a woman who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
- cob money — crude silver coins issued in the Spanish colonies of the New World from about 1600 until 1820
- cobalamin — vitamin B12
- coenobite — a member of a religious order following a communal rule of life
- coenobium — a monastery or convent
- coinhabit — To inhabit together.
- colombian — Colombian means belonging or relating to Colombia or its people or culture.
- colubrine — of or resembling a snake
- columbian — of or relating to the United States
- columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
- combatant — A combatant is a person, group, or country that takes part in the fighting in a war.
- combating — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combinate — combined
- combining — the process or an act of combining two or more things
- conchobar — (in Irish legend) a king of Ulster at about the beginning of the Christian era
- concubine — In former times, a concubine was a woman who lived with and had a sexual relationship with a man of higher social rank without being married to him.
- confabbed — Simple past tense and past participle of confab.
- connubial — of or relating to marriage; conjugal
- conscribe — to conscript
- constable — In Britain and some other countries, a constable is a police officer of the lowest rank.
- conybeare — William Daniel. 1787–1857, British geologist. He summarized all that was known about rocks at the time in Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822)
- corbeling — the fashioning of corbels
- corn beef — corned beef.
- corn belt — region in the NC plains area of the Midwest where much corn and cornfed livestock are raised: it extends from W Ohio to E Nebr. and NE Kans.
- cornballs — Plural form of cornball.
- cornborer — the larva of the pyralid moth Pyrausta nubilalis, native to S and Central Europe: in E North America a serious pest of maize
- cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
- cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
- cornbread — Cornbread is bread made from ground maize or corn. It is popular in the United States.
- corncribs — Plural form of corncrib.
- countable — capable of being counted
- countably — in a countable manner
- countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
- cowabunga — Used to express delight or satisfaction.
- cowboying — Present participle of cowboy.
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- cropbound — (of poultry) having a congested crop
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- crotonbug — species of cockroach
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- cyberporn — any pornography accessible online or on the internet