8-letter words containing n, i, b, s
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- bombesin — a hormone partly responsible for regulating appetite
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
- bongoist — a player of the bongos
- boniness — the condition of being bony
- bonspiel — a curling match
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- boxiness — the quality of being boxy
- brahmins — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- brainish — impulsive or impetuous
- brancusi — Constantin (konstanˈtin). 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms
- brandeis — ˈLouis Demˌbitz (ˈdɛmˌbɪts ) ; demˈbitsˌ) 1856-1941; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1916-39)
- brandise — a trivet
- brandish — If you brandish something, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
- brasilin — brazilin
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brindisi — a port in SE Italy, in SE Apulia: important naval base in Roman times and a centre of the Crusades in the Middle Ages. Pop: 89 081 (2001)
- brisance — the shattering effect or power of an explosion or explosive
- brisbane — a port in E Australia, the capital of Queensland: founded in 1824 as a penal settlement; vast agricultural hinterland. Pop: 2 189 878 (2013)
- brisking — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
- brisling — another name for a sprat, esp a Norwegian sprat seasoned, smoked, and canned in oil
- brownish — Something that is brownish is slightly brown in colour.
- brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
- browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
- bruising — If someone has bruising on their body, they have bruises on it.
- bsd unix — Berkeley Software Distribution
- buckskin — Buckskin is soft, strong leather made from the skin of a deer or a goat.
- buginese — a member of a Muslim people inhabiting the southern part of Sulawesi.
- burinist — a person who works with a burin
- burnside — land along the side of a burn
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- bus line — the route of a bus or buses.
- bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
- business — Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.
- buskined — relating to tragic drama
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.
- byronism — of or relating to Lord Byron.
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- cannabis — Cannabis is the hemp plant when it is used as a drug.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- combines — Plural form of combine.
- combings — the loose hair, wool, etc, removed by combing, esp that of animals
- corbinas — Plural form of corbina.
- debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- dingbats — Slang. an eccentric, silly, or empty-headed person.