9-letter words containing s, o, n
- bank shot — Basketball. a shot into the basket, made by rebounding the ball off the backboard.
- bankbooks — Plural form of bankbook.
- banknotes — Plural form of banknote.
- bankrolls — Plural form of bankroll.
- bankstown — a city in SE Australia, a suburb of Sydney.
- bannerols — Plural form of bannerol.
- bar-spoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barnstorm — When people such as politicians or performers barnstorm, they travel around the country making speeches or giving shows.
- barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
- basilicon — any of a variety of healing ointments applied to wounds in early medicine, commonly using lard or oil, resin, and wax
- bass horn — an obsolete wind instrument of low range
- bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- batswoman — a female batsman
- batswomen — Plural form of batswoman.
- bean shot — refined copper having a shotlike form from being thrown into water in a molten state.
- beanpoles — Plural form of beanpole.
- bed stone — the fixed lower member of a pair of millstones. Compare runner (def 12).
- bemonster — to treat as a monster
- big noise — Someone who is a big noise has an important position in a group or organization.
- bilestone — gallstone.
- biocenose — a situation in which organisms live together in mutual dependence
- biogenous — the production of living organisms from other living organisms.
- bionomics — ecology (sense 1)
- biosensor — a biological device used to detect specific chemical presence
- 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.
- blondness — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
- bluestone — a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
- boanerges — a nickname applied by Jesus to James and John in Mark 3:17
- 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
- bodements — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- bojangles — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- bolognese — of or relating to Bologna or its inhabitants
- bombasine — bombazine.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- bondstone — a long stone or brick laid in a wall as a header
- bonhomous — exhibiting bonhomie
- bonilasse — an attractive young woman
- bonniness — the quality of being bonny
- bony fish — any fish of the class Osteichthyes, including most of the extant species, having a skeleton of bone rather than cartilage
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
- boondocks — If you say that someone lives in the boondocks, you mean that they live a long way from any large cities.
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.