9-letter words containing n, i, o, b
- big noise — Someone who is a big noise has an important position in a group or organization.
- big-boned — having bones that are unusually massive
- bijection — a mathematical function or mapping that is both an injection and a surjection and therefore has an inverse
- bilection — bolection
- bilestone — gallstone.
- billabong — a backwater channel that forms a lagoon or pool
- billionth — The billionth item in a series is the one you count as number one billion.
- billowing — a great wave or surge of the sea.
- bimonthly — A bimonthly event or publication happens or appears every two months.
- bind over — If someone is bound over by a court or a judge, they are given an order and must do as the order says for a particular period of time.
- binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
- binominal — of or denoting the binomial nomenclature
- binovular — relating to or derived from two different ova
- binprolog — (language) Probably the fastest freely available C-emulated Prolog. BinProlog features: logical and permanent global variables; backtrackable destructive assignment; circular term unification; extended DCGs (now built into the engine as "invisible grammars"); intuitionistic and linear implication based hypothetical reasoning; a Tcl/Tk interface. Version 3.30 runs on SPARC/Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.x; DEC Alpha 64-bit version; DEC MIPS; SGI MIPS; 68k - NeXT, Sun-3; IBM RS6000; HP PA-RISC (two variants); Intel 80386, Intel 486/Linux, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1 (with DOS-extender go32 v1.10). E-mail: Paul Tarau <[email protected]>.
- binturong — an arboreal SE Asian viverrine mammal, Arctictis binturong, closely related to the palm civets but larger and having long shaggy black hair
- biocenose — a situation in which organisms live together in mutual dependence
- bioenergy — the renewable energy derived from biological sources
- biogenous — the production of living organisms from other living organisms.
- biomining — the use of microorganisms to collect precious metals for extraction
- bionomics — ecology (sense 1)
- bioparent — a biological parent
- bioregion — a natural ecological community in which the biodiversity and ecosystem are distinct
- biosensor — a biological device used to detect specific chemical presence
- bioweapon — Bioweapons are biological weapons.
- bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
- bisontine — relating to bison
- bisphenol — a synthetic organic compound used to make plastics and resins
- bissonata — a coarse woolen cloth constructed in plain weave and dyed black or brown, used in the manufacture of clerical vestments.
- bivoltine — producing two broods in one year, as certain silkworm moths.
- bjoerling — Jussi [yoo s-ee] /ˈyʊs i/ (Show IPA), 1911–60, Swedish tenor.
- 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
- blindfold — A blindfold is a strip of cloth that is tied over someone's eyes so that they cannot see.
- blindworm — a legless lizard (Anguis fragilis) of the Old World; slowworm: it has very small eyes and a snakelike body that is usually brownish
- block tin — pure tin, esp when cast into ingots
- bloodline — A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors.
- blow into — to arrive in or enter (a room, etc) suddenly
- blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- boat nail — a nail with a convex head and a chisel point.
- boatswain — a petty officer on a merchant ship or a warrant officer on a warship who is responsible for the maintenance of the ship and its equipment
- bob-bling — a repeated, jerky movement; bob.
- bobby pin — A bobby pin is a small piece of metal or plastic bent back on itself, which someone uses to hold their hair in position.
- bodenheim — Maxwell, 1892–1954, U.S. poet and novelist.
- body-line — denoting or relating to fast bowling aimed at the batsman's body
- boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
- boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
- boilingly — in a boiling manner
- bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
- boliviano — (until 1963 and from 1987) the standard monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos