9-letter words containing n, a, b, t
- ambitions — an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment: Too much ambition caused him to be disliked by his colleagues.
- ambulante — a portable tea table, used in 18th-century France.
- anabantid — any of various spiny-finned fishes constituting the family Anabantidae and including the fighting fish, climbing perch, and gourami
- anabiotic — a bringing back to consciousness; reanimation after apparent death.
- anabolite — a product of anabolism
- anatabine — a liquid alkaloid, C 10 H 12 N 2 , obtained from tobacco.
- ant tribe — (in China) a generation of young people who have migrated from rural areas to cities in large numbers
- antiabuse — designed to prevent abuse
- antiblack — showing discrimination against Black people
- antibully — Intended to counter bullying.
- antibuser — someone who opposes busing
- antilabor — opposed to labor unions or to the interests of workers
- antiurban — opposed to the urban environment or urban life
- arbuthnot — John. 1667–1735, Scottish physician and satirist: author of The History of John Bull (1712) and, with others, of the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1741)
- asbestine — Mineralogy. a fibrous mineral, either amphibole or chrysotile, formerly used for making incombustible or fireproof articles.
- ashburton — 1st Baron, Baring, Alexander.
- attenable — Alternative form of attainable.
- autobahns — Plural form of autobahn.
- babington — Anthony 1561–86, English conspirator, executed for organizing an unsuccessful plot (1586) to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne
- bacchante — a priestess or female votary of Bacchus
- bacchants — Plural form of bacchant.
- back vent — (in plumbing) a vent situated on the sewer side of a trap.
- backprint — The mark or impression left by a person's back having been pressed against a surface.
- bacon fat — fat made by rendering bacon
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- bad thing — (jargon) (From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: Good Thing. British correspondents confirm that Bad Thing and Good Thing (and probably therefore Right Thing and Wrong Thing) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.
- badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
- bakestone — a flat stone placed in or near an oven or fire, for baking cakes on
- bakhtaran — city in W Iran: pop. 561,000
- balanitis — inflammation of the glans penis, usually due to infection
- ballonets — Plural form of ballonet.
- balloting — voting in an election
- ballotini — small glass beads used in reflective paints
- ballpoint — A ballpoint or a ballpoint pen is a pen with a very small metal ball at the end which transfers the ink from the pen onto a surface.
- band list — a list of Canadian Indians formally recognized as belonging to a band
- bandicoot — any agile terrestrial marsupial of the family Peramelidae of Australia and New Guinea. They have a long pointed muzzle and a long tail and feed mainly on small invertebrates
- bandmates — Plural form of bandmate.
- bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
- bandstand — A bandstand is a platform with a roof where a military band or a brass band can play in the open air.
- bandwidth — A bandwidth is the range of frequencies used for a particular telecommunications signal, radio transmission, or computer network.
- bang into — a loud, sudden, explosive noise, as the discharge of a gun.
- bang path — 1. (communications) An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address naming a sequence of hosts through which a message must pass to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee (a "source route"). So called because each hop is signified by a bang sign (exclamation mark). Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!barbox!me directs people to route their mail to computer bigsite (presumably a well-known location accessible to everybody) and from there through the computer foovax to the account of user me on barbox. Before autorouting mailers became commonplace, people often published compound bang addresses using the convention (see glob) to give paths from *several* big computers, in the hope that one's correspondent might be able to get mail to one of them reliably. e.g. ...!{seismo, ut-sally, ihnp4}!rice!beta!gamma!me Bang paths of 8 to 10 hops were not uncommon in 1981. Late-night dial-up UUCP links would cause week-long transmission times. Bang paths were often selected by both transmission time and reliability, as messages would often get lost. 2. (operating system) A shebang.
- bang tidy — of exceptionally good quality
- banisters — the railing and supporting balusters on a staircase; balustrade
- bank note — a promissory note issued by a bank, payable on demand: it is a form of paper money
- bank rate — The bank rate is the rate of interest at which a bank lends money, especially the minimum rate of interest that banks are allowed to charge, which is decided from time to time by the country's central bank.
- bank shot — Basketball. a shot into the basket, made by rebounding the ball off the backboard.
- banknotes — Plural form of banknote.
- bankrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bankrupt.
- bankstown — a city in SE Australia, a suburb of Sydney.