5-letter words containing n, b, o
- boxen — of or relating to the box-tree; made of box-wood
- boyne — a river in the E Republic of Ireland, rising in the Bog of Allen and flowing northeast to the Irish Sea: William III of England defeated the deposed James II in a battle (Battle of the Boyne) on its banks in 1690, completing the overthrow of the Stuart cause in Ireland. Length: about 112 km (70 miles)
- bozen — German name of Bolzano (def 2).
- bronc — bronco
- brond — a piece of burnt or burning wood
- bronx — northernmost borough of New York City, between the Harlem River & Long Island Sound: pop. 1,333,000
- broun — (Matthew) Heywood (Campbell) 1888–1939, U.S. journalist, essayist, and novelist.
- brown — Something that is brown is the colour of earth or of wood.
- bruno — Franklin Roy, known as Frank. born 1961, British heavyweight boxer
- bunco — a swindle, esp one by confidence tricksters
- bunko — bunco
- buron — a public official perceived to be a hindrance to enterprise
- byron — George Gordon, 6th Baron. 1788–1824, British Romantic poet, noted also for his passionate and disastrous love affairs. His major works include Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–18), and Don Juan (1819–24). He spent much of his life abroad and died while fighting for Greek independence
- ebone — A pan-European backbone network service.
- ebons — Plural form of ebon.
- ebony — a hard, heavy, durable wood, most highly prized when black, from various tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, as D. ebenum of southern India and Sri Lanka, used for cabinetwork, ornamental objects, etc.
- gabon — Official name Gabonese Republic. a republic in W equatorial Africa: formerly a part of French Equatorial Africa; member of the French Community. 102,290 sq. mi. (264,931 sq. km). Capital: Libreville.
- goban — a Japanese game played on a go board with players alternating and attempting to be first to place five counters in a row.
- hoban — James, c1762–1831, U.S. architect, born in Ireland: designed the White House.
- inbox — a boxlike tray, basket, or the like, as on a desk, for holding incoming mail, messages, or work.
- inorb — to enclose in or as if in an orb
- knobs — a projecting part, usually rounded, forming the handle of a door, drawer, or the like.
- koban — old oval-shaped Japanese gold coin
- konbu — a brown Japanese seaweed, sun-dried before use in sushi, stocks, etc.
- mbone — Virtual Internet Backbone for Multicast IP. IP Multicast-based routing allows distributed applications to achieve real-time communication over IP wide area networks through a lightweight, highly threaded model of communication. Each network-provider participant in the MBONE provides one or more IP multicast routers to connect with tunnels to other participants and to customers. The multicast routers are typically separate from a network's production routers since most production routers don't yet support IP multicast. Most sites use workstations running the mrouted program, but the experimental MOSPF software for Proteon routers is an alternative. Ideally, the machines running mrouted should be dedicated to this task, for reasons of real-time performance and ease of installing kernel patches. Since most intermediate nodes have at least three tunnels, each carrying a separate (unicast) copy of each packet, it is also useful to have multiple network interfaces so it can be installed parallel to the unicast router for those sites with configurations like this: Note that end-user sites may participate with as little as one workstation that runs the packet audio and video software and has a tunnel to a network-provider node.
- nabob — any very wealthy, influential, or powerful person.
- niobe — the daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion of Thebes. She provoked Apollo and Artemis to vengeance by taunting their mother, Leto, with the number and beauty of her own children; Niobe's children were slain and Zeus turned her into stone, in which state she continued to weep over her loss.
- nobby — fashionable or elegant; stylish; chic.
- nobel — Alfred Bernhard [ahl-fred ber-nahrd] /ˈɑl frɛd ˈbɛr nɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1833–96, Swedish engineer, manufacturer, and philanthropist.
- noble — distinguished by rank or title.
- nobly — in a noble manner.
- noobs — Plural form of noob.
- nooby — Like a noob.
- noweb — (programming) A system of structured programming and documentation from M.Speh in DESY. See literate programming.
- obang — a Japanese gold coin, rectangular in shape, that is no longer in common usage and is only used as a ceremonial or special contribution
- robin — a male or female given name: derived from Robert.
- tobin — James, 1918–2002, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1981.
- unbox — to remove from a box.