9-letter words containing n, b, o
- brainwork — intellectual effort
- brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
- bran loaf — a rectangular cake whose ingredients include bran and dried fruit
- branchio- — gills
- 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.
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- bremerton — a city in W Washington, on Puget Sound: navy yard.
- brentwood — a residential town in SE England, in SW Essex near London. Pop: 47 593 (2001)
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
- brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
- bring off — If you bring off something difficult, you do it successfully.
- 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.
- bringdown — a disappointment
- brittonic — Brythonic
- broadband — Broadband is a method of sending many electronic messages at the same time, using a wide range of frequencies.
- broadener — a person who broadens something, a device which broadens something
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- broadness — the state or character of being broad: the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
- brokering — the work of a broker or brokerage
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
- bromeosin — eosin (def 1).
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- brondyron — a sword
- bronxites — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
- brood hen — a hen kept for breeding
- brookings — Robert Somers [suhm-erz] /ˈsʌm ərz/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
- broomcorn — a variety of sorghum, Sorghum vulgare technicum, the long stiff flower stalks of which have been used for making brooms
- brown ale — a rich ale made with brown or dark malt
- brown bag — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- 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 cow — a drink made by mixing cola and milk
- 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 out — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
- brown owl — nocturnal bird of prey
- brown rat — a common brownish rat, Rattus norvegicus: a serious pest in all parts of the world
- brown rot — a disease of apples, peaches, etc, caused by fungi of the genus Sclerotinia and characterized by yellowish-brown masses of spores on the plant surface
- brown-bag — If you brown-bag your lunch or you brown-bag it, you bring your lunch in a bag to work or school.
- brownwood — a city in central Texas.
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- 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
- bufotoxin — a toxin obtained from the skin glands of the European toad, Bufa vulgaris.
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone