7-letter words containing ban
- banjoes — Plural form of banjo.
- bank on — If you bank on something happening, you expect it to happen and rely on it happening.
- bankers — Plural form of banker.
- banking — Banking is the business activity of banks and similar institutions.
- banksia — any shrub or tree of the Australian genus Banksia, having long leathery evergreen leaves and dense cylindrical heads of flowers that are often red or yellowish: family Proteaceae
- banners — Plural form of banner.
- banning — the act or an instance of prohibiting or forbidding
- bannock — a round flat unsweetened cake originating in Scotland, made from oatmeal or barley and baked on a griddle
- banoffi — Alternative spelling of banoffee.
- banquet — A banquet is a grand formal dinner.
- banshee — In Irish folk stories, a banshee is a female spirit who warns you by her long, sad cry that someone in your family is going to die.
- banshie — (in Irish folklore) a spirit in the form of a wailing woman who appears to or is heard by members of a family as a sign that one of them is about to die.
- bantams — Plural form of bantam.
- banteng — a species of wild ox found in SE Asia
- banters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of banter.
- banting — slimming by avoiding eating sugar, starch, and fat
- bantock — Sir Granville. 1868–1946, British composer. His works include the Hebridean Symphony (1915), five ballets, and three operas
- bantoid — denoting or relating to languages, esp in Cameroon and Nigeria, that possess certain Bantu characteristics
- banyans — Plural form of banyan.
- biobank — any large store of human biological samples for research into the genetic and environmental causes of disease
- brabant — a former duchy of W Europe: divided when Belgium became independent (1830), the south forming the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and Brabant and the north forming the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands
- bugbane — any of several ranunculaceous plants of the genus Cimicifuga, esp C. foetida of Europe, whose flowers are reputed to repel insects
- burbank — Luther1849-1926; U.S. horticulturist: bred numerous varieties of fruits, vegetables, & flowers
- cabanas — Plural form of cabana.
- caliban — a brutish or brutalized man
- canbank — a container in which cans can be deposited for recycling
- churban — the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, first by the Babylonians in 587 bc and again by the Romans in 70 ad
- corbans — Plural form of corban.
- cowbane — any of several N temperate poisonous umbelliferous marsh plants of the genus Cicuta, esp C. virosa, having clusters of small white flowers
- cutbank — the outer, steeper bank of a bend or meander in a river or stream
- disband — to break up or dissolve (an organization): They disbanded the corporation.
- dogbane — any of several plants of the genus Apocynum, especially A. androsaemifolium, yielding an acrid milky juice and having an intensely bitter root.
- embanks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embank.
- exurban — Of, pertaining to, or residing in an exurb.
- eyebank — a place in which corneas are stored for use in corneal grafts
- firbank — (Arthur Annesley) Ronald. 1886–1926, English novelist, whose works include Valmouth (1919), The Flower beneath the Foot (1923), and Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926)
- flybane — A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene.
- fogbank — A bank of fog.
- go bang — to burst, shut, etc, with a loud noise
- hatband — a band or ribbon placed about the crown of a hat, just above the brim.
- hayband — a rope made by twisting hay together
- henbane — an Old World plant, Hyoscyamus niger, of the nightshade family, having sticky, hairy fetid foliage and greenish-yellow flowers, and possessing narcotic and poisonous properties especially destructive to domestic fowls.
- husband — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- ikebana — the Japanese art of arranging flowers.
- in banc — sitting as a full court
- kanbans — Plural form of kanban.
- lebanon — a republic at the E end of the Mediterranean, N of Israel. 3927 sq. mi. (10,170 sq. km). Capital: Beirut.
- lumbang — a euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites mollucana, the fruits of which yield tung oil
- manband — an all-male vocal pop group which was formed as a boy band, but whose members have reached maturity
- mbabane — a kingdom in SE Africa between S Mozambique and the E Republic of South Africa: formerly a British protectorate. 6704 sq. mi. (17,363 sq. km). Capital: Mbabane.