9-letter words containing o, n, b, a
- 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
- bonilasse — an attractive young woman
- boogerman — South Midland and Southern U.S. bogeyman.
- boogeyman — a frightening imaginary being, often one used as a threat in disciplining children
- boogieman — bogeyman.
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
- boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
- bostonian — a person from Boston
- botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- botulinal — of or relating to the bacterium Clostridium botulinum
- boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
- boundable — able to be bound or limited
- brabancon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a short, smooth coat.
- bradenton — a city in W Florida.
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- brainwork — intellectual effort
- brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
- bran loaf — a rectangular cake whose ingredients include bran and dried fruit
- branchio- — gills
- brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
- brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- broadband — Broadband is a method of sending many electronic messages at the same time, using a wide range of frequencies.
- broadener — a person who broadens something, a device which broadens something
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- broadness — the state or character of being broad: the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- brown ale — a rich ale made with brown or dark malt
- brown bag — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
- brown fat — tissue composed of a type of fat cell that dissipates as heat most of the energy released when food is oxidized; brown adipose tissue. It is present in hibernating animals and human babies and is thought to be important in adult weight control
- brown rat — a common brownish rat, Rattus norvegicus: a serious pest in all parts of the world
- brown-bag — If you brown-bag your lunch or you brown-bag it, you bring your lunch in a bag to work or school.
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- buoyantly — in a happy, confident manner
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- by a nose — by the length of the animal's nose in horse racing, etc.
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- cabin boy — a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
- cabochons — Plural form of cabochon.
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants