9-letter words containing n, a, b, t
- braintree — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- branchlet — a small branch
- brandreth — a gridiron, iron trivet, or tripod
- brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
- brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- brilliant — A brilliant person, idea, or performance is extremely clever or skilful.
- britannia — a female warrior carrying a trident and wearing a helmet, personifying Great Britain or the British Empire
- britannic — of Britain; British (esp in the phrases His or Her Britannic Majesty)
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
- brown fat — tissue composed of a type of fat cell that dissipates as heat most of the energy released when food is oxidized; brown adipose tissue. It is present in hibernating animals and human babies and is thought to be important in adult weight control
- brown rat — a common brownish rat, Rattus norvegicus: a serious pest in all parts of the world
- bucentaur — the state barge of Venice from which the doge and other officials dropped a ring into the sea on Ascension Day to symbolize the ceremonial marriage of the state with the Adriatic
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- bundesrat — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level
- bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
- buoyantly — in a happy, confident manner
- burn rate — The burn rate of a startup company is a measure of how fast it uses up its capital before becoming profitable.
- butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
- butenandt — Adolf Frederick Johann. 1903–95, German organic chemist. He shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1939) for his pioneering work on sex hormones
- by nature — essentially or innately
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- byzantine — Byzantine means related to or connected with the Byzantine Empire.
- byzantium — an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul
- cab stand — A cab stand is a place where taxis wait for passengers, for example, at an airport or outside a station.
- cabernets — Plural form of cabernet.
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cabinmate — a person with whom one shares a cabin
- cabstands — Plural form of cabstand.
- canalboat — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
- cancelbot — a computer program that deletes unwanted mailings to internet usergroups
- canrobert — François Certain [frahn-swa ser-tan] /frɑ̃ˈswa sɛrˈtɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1809–95, French marshal.
- cantabank — an itinerant singer
- cantabile — (to be performed) in a singing style, i.e. flowingly and melodiously
- cantabria — a province and autonomous community in N Spain
- carbonate — Carbonate is used in the names of some substances that are formed from carbonic acid, which is a compound of carbon dioxide and water.
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- celebrant — A celebrant is a person who performs or takes part in a religious ceremony.
- chainbelt — a belt made up of metal links, used as a conveyor or with a chain gear.
- chantable — able to be chanted or sung
- coinhabit — To inhabit together.
- combatant — A combatant is a person, group, or country that takes part in the fighting in a war.
- combating — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combinate — combined
- constable — In Britain and some other countries, a constable is a police officer of the lowest rank.