7-letter words containing o, n, b, e
- boloney — baloney
- bonaire — an island in the S Caribbean, part of the Netherlands Antilles until their dissolution in 2010, now a special municipality of the Netherlands: one of the Leeward Islands. Chief town: Kralendijk. Pop: 11 537 (2007 est). Area: about 288 sq km (111 sq miles)
- bondage — Bondage is the condition of being someone's property and having to work for them.
- bondmen — a male slave.
- bone up — to study intensively
- boneset — any of various North American plants of the genus Eupatorium, esp E. perfoliatum, which has flat clusters of small white flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- bonfire — A bonfire is a fire that is made outdoors, usually to burn rubbish. Bonfires are also sometimes lit as part of a celebration.
- bonheur — Rosa (roza). 1822–99, French painter of animals
- bonkers — If you say that someone is bonkers, you mean that they are silly or act in a crazy way.
- bonsela — a present or gratuity
- bonynge — Richard. born 1930, Australian conductor, esp of opera
- bookend — Bookends are a pair of supports used to hold a row of books in an upright position by placing one at each end of the row.
- boolean — of or relating to Boole or his symbolic logic
- boonies — The boonies are the same as the boondocks.
- bornean — of or relating to Borneo or its inhabitants
- borneol — a white solid terpene alcohol extracted from the Malaysian tree Dryobalanops aromatica, used in perfume and in the manufacture of organic esters. Formula: C10H17OH
- bornite — a mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron that tarnishes to purple or dark red. It occurs in copper deposits. Formula: Cu5FeS4
- botonee — (of a cross) having arms terminating in the form of a trefoil: cross botonée.
- bottine — a light boot for women or children; half-boot
- bouncer — A bouncer is a man who stands at the door of a club, prevents unwanted people from coming in, and makes people leave if they cause trouble.
- bounded — (of a set) having a bound, esp where a measure is defined in terms of which all the elements of the set, or the differences between all pairs of members, are less than some value, or else all its members lie within some other well-defined set
- bounden — morally obligatory (archaic except in the phrase bounden duty)
- bounder — If you call a man a bounder, you mean he behaves in an unkind, deceitful, or selfish way.
- bow net — a clam-shaped net for trapping hawks, set open and baited with a pigeon, and closed upon the hawk by means of a trigger sprung from a blind.
- bowbent — bent, shaped like a bow
- bowline — a line for controlling the weather leech of a square sail when a vessel is close-hauled
- bozeman — a city in S Montana.
- brenton — Howard. born 1942, British dramatist, author of such controversial plays as The Churchill Play (1974), The Romans in Britain (1980), (with David Hare) Pravda (1985), and several topical satires with Tariq Ali
- bresson — Robert (rɔbɛr). 1901–99, French film director: his films include Le Journal d'un curé de campagne (1950), Une Femme douce (1969), and L'Argent (1983)
- broaden — When something broadens, it becomes wider.
- brocken — a mountain in central Germany: the highest peak of the Harz Mountains; important in German folklore. Height: 1142 m (3747 ft). The Brocken Bow or Brocken Spectre is an atmospheric phenomenon in which an observer, when the sun is low, may see his enlarged shadow against the clouds, often surrounded by coloured lights
- bromine — a pungent dark red volatile liquid element of the halogen series that occurs in natural brine and is used in the production of chemicals, esp ethylene dibromide. Symbol: Br; atomic no: 35; atomic wt: 79.904; valency: 1, 3, 5, or 7; relative density 3.12; density (gas): 7.59 kg/m3; melting pt: –7.2°C; boiling pt: 58.78°C
- bronzed — Someone who is bronzed is attractively brown because they have been in the sun.
- bronzen — made of or resembling bronze
- bronzer — a cosmetic applied to the skin to simulate a sun tan
- browner — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
- brownie — Brownies are small flat biscuits or cakes. They are usually chocolate flavoured and have nuts in them.
- bunuelo — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- burgeon — If something burgeons, it grows or develops rapidly.
- bygones — past; gone by; earlier; former: The faded photograph brought memories of bygone days.
- bywoner — a poor tenant farmer
- cabezon — a large food fish, Scorpaenichthys marmoratus, of North American Pacific coastal waters, having greenish flesh: family Cottidae (bullheads and sea scorpions)
- carbone — Obsolete form of carbon.
- cirebon — a port in S central Indonesia, on N Java on the Java Sea: scene of the signing of the Tjirebon Agreement of Indonesian independence (1946) by the Netherlands. Pop: 272 263 (2000)
- coblenz — Koblenz
- combine — If you combine two or more things or if they combine, they exist together.
- cowbane — any of several N temperate poisonous umbelliferous marsh plants of the genus Cicuta, esp C. virosa, having clusters of small white flowers
- deboned — Having its bones removed.
- deboner — a person or a device that debones a piece of meat or fish
- dogbane — any of several plants of the genus Apocynum, especially A. androsaemifolium, yielding an acrid milky juice and having an intensely bitter root.