9-letter words containing u, n, o
- autopoint — a point-to-point race in motor cars
- autotoxin — any poison or toxin formed in the organism upon which it acts
- auxotonic — (of muscle contraction) occurring against increasing force
- avouching — Present participle of avouch.
- ayckbourn — Sir Alan. born 1939, English dramatist. His plays include Absurd Person Singular (1973), the trilogy The Norman Conquests (1974), A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), House and Garden (2000), and Private Fears in Public Places (2004)
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
- baragouin — incomprehensible language; gibberish
- befortune — to happen, befall, come about
- bernoulli — Daniel (danjɛl), son of Jean Bernoulli. 1700–82, Swiss mathematician and physicist, who developed an early form of the kinetic theory of gases and stated the principle of conservation of energy in fluid dynamics
- binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
- binovular — relating to or derived from two different ova
- binturong — an arboreal SE Asian viverrine mammal, Arctictis binturong, closely related to the palm civets but larger and having long shaggy black hair
- biogenous — the production of living organisms from other living organisms.
- bland out — to become bland
- blank out — If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought.
- bloodnoun — a bullfrog, especially Rana catesbeiana.
- blue john — a blue or purple fibrous variety of fluorspar occurring only in Derbyshire: used for vases, etc
- blue moon — If you say that something happens once in a blue moon, you are emphasizing that it does not happen very often at all.
- blue note — a flattened third or seventh, used frequently in the blues
- blue onyx — jasper stained blue in imitation of lapis lazuli.
- blue roan — a horse having a black coat sprinkled with white hairs
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- bluestone — a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
- boarhound — a hound used to chase boar
- bonhomous — exhibiting bonhomie
- bontebuck — bontebok.
- book lung — the respiratory organ of a spider, scorpion, or other arachnid, composed of thin, membranous structures arranged like the leaves of a book.
- bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
- botulinal — of or relating to the bacterium Clostridium botulinum
- botulinum — an anaerobic botulin-secreting bacterium, Clostridium botulinum
- botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
- 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
- bound for — going or intending to go; on the way to; destined (usually followed by for): The train is bound for Denver.
- boundable — able to be bound or limited
- boundedly — having bounds or limits.
- boundless — If you describe something as boundless, you mean that there seems to be no end or limit to it.
- boundness — the quality of being bound or obligated
- bounteous — giving freely; generous
- bountiful — A bountiful supply or amount of something pleasant is a large one.
- bountyhed — the quality of being bounteous
- bourgogne — Burgundy2
- bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
- box lunch — A box lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- bring out — When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- brown out — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
- buckhound — a hound, smaller than a staghound, used for hunting the smaller breeds of deer, esp fallow deer
- buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad