8-letter words containing n, t, s
- bantengs — Plural form of banteng.
- bantings — Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
- baronets — Plural form of baronet.
- basanite — a black basaltic rock containing plagioclase, augite, olivine, and nepheline, leucite, or analcite, formerly used as a touchstone
- basement — The basement of a building is a floor built partly or completely below ground level.
- bashment — (slang, countable, especially Jamaican) A party or rave.
- bassinet — A bassinet is a small bed for a baby that is like a basket.
- bastions — Plural form of bastion.
- bastogne — a town in SE Belgium: of strategic importance to Allied defences during the Battle of the Bulge; besieged by the Germans during the winter of 1944–45. Pop: 14 070 (2004 est)
- batangas — a port in the Philippines, in SW Luzon. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- batinism — a secret movement in Islam, often associated with Ismaʿili Shiʿism.
- batlings — Plural form of batling.
- batswing — in the form of the wing of a bat
- bayonets — Plural form of bayonet.
- beatings — Plural form of beating.
- beatniks — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the Beat Generation.
- bedstand — a bedside table
- bedstone — A large, heavy, flat stone used to support a column or similar member, or as the lower stone of an oil mill.
- behistun — a village in W Iran by the ancient road from Ecbatana to Babylon. On a nearby cliff is an inscription by Darius in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian describing his enthronement
- benefits — The benefits of a life or medical insurance policy are the money that it pays out.
- besprent — sprinkled over
- best end — the end of the neck of lamb, pork, etc, nearest to the ribs
- best man — The best man at a wedding is the man who assists the bridegroom.
- bettinus — a crater in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (96 km) in diameter.
- blandest — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blondest — (of a woman or girl) having fair hair and usually fair skin and light eyes.
- bluntish — somewhat blunt
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boatsman — boatman.
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bongoist — a player of the bongos
- bontemps — Arna Wendell [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–73, U.S. author.
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- bosthoon — a boor
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- botswana — a republic in southern Africa: established as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland in 1885 as a defence against the Boers; became an independent state within the Commonwealth in 1966; consists mostly of a plateau averaging 1000 m (3300 ft), with the extensive Okavango swamps in the northwest and the Kalahari Desert in the southwest. Languages: English and Tswana. Religion: animist majority. Currency: pula. Capital: Gaborone. Pop: 2 127 825 (2013 est). Area: about 570 000 sq km (220 000 sq miles)
- brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
- burinist — a person who works with a burin
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- 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.
- butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
- by turns — You can use by turns to indicate that someone has two particular emotions or qualities, one after the other.
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- cabstand — a taxi rank
- camstone — a limestone used for whitening stone doorsteps and hearths
- canastas — Plural form of canasta.