6-letter words containing n, b
- barney — a noisy argument
- barnum — P(hineas) T(aylor). 1810–91, US showman, who created The Greatest Show on Earth (1871) and, with J. A. Bailey, founded the Barnum and Bailey Circus (1881)
- barong — a broad-bladed cleaver-like knife used in the Philippines
- barons — a member of the lowest grade of nobility.
- barony — A barony is the rank or position of a baron.
- barren — A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.
- barron — Clarence Walker, 1855–1928, U.S. financial publisher.
- barton — a farmyard
- baryon — any of a class of elementary particles that have a mass greater than or equal to that of the proton, participate in strong interactions, and have a spin of 1⁄2. Baryons are either nucleons or hyperons. The baryon number is the number of baryons in a system minus the number of antibaryons
- barzun — Jacques (Martin) 1907–2012, U.S. historian, educator, and writer, born in France.
- basant — a spring festival celebrated in Pakistan
- bashan — a region to the east of the Jordan, renowned for its rich pasture (Deuteronomy 32:14)
- basing — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
- basins — Plural form of basin.
- basion — the midpoint on the forward border of the foramen magnum
- baskin — Leonard, 1922–2000, U.S. sculptor and artist.
- basnet — basinet.
- baston — (heraldry) Obsolete form of baton.
- bataan — a peninsula in the Philippines, in W Luzon: scene of the surrender of US and Philippine forces to the Japanese during World War II, later retaken by American forces
- bating — except for; excluding
- batman — In the British armed forces, an officer's batman is his personal servant.
- batmen — a soldier assigned to an officer as a servant.
- batons — Plural form of baton.
- batten — A batten is a long strip of wood that is fixed to something to strengthen it or to hold it firm.
- batton — Alternative form of batten.
- bauson — a badger (applied contemptuously to people).
- bavins — Plural form of bavin.
- bayern — Bavaria
- baying — a deep, prolonged howl, as of a hound on the scent.
- bayman — a person who lives by a bay, esp one who is skilled in navigating it
- baymen — Plural form of bayman.
- bayyan — an official declaration
- bb gun — A BB gun is a type of airgun that fires small round bullets that are called BBs.
- be inc — (company) The company that produced the BeBox, founded by Jean-Louis Gassee, former product chief at Apple.
- beacon — A beacon is a light or a fire, usually on a hill or tower, which acts as a signal or a warning.
- beamon — Robert ("Bob") born 1946, U.S. track-and-field athlete.
- beaned — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- beaner — A Mexican or a person of Mexican descent.
- beanie — A beanie is a small, close-fitting cap.
- beaten — Beaten earth has been pressed down, often by people's feet, until it is hard.
- beaton — Sir Cecil (Walter Hardy). 1904–80, British photographer, noted esp for his society portraits
- beaune — a town in E France, near Dijon: an important trading centre for Burgundy wines. Pop: 22 218 (2008)
- bebung — a vibrato effect given to any sustained note, esp to one produced by a clavichord
- beckon — If you beckon to someone, you signal to them to come to you.
- bed in — to fit (parts) together accurately or (of parts) to be fitted together, either through machining or use, as in fitting a bearing to its shaft
- bedamn — to damn, to curse thoroughly
- bedpan — A bedpan is a shallow bowl shaped like a toilet seat, which is used instead of a toilet by people who are too ill to get out of bed.
- beduin — an Arab of the desert, in Asia or Africa; nomadic Arab.
- bedung — to cover or make dirty with dung
- bedzin — an industrial and mining town in S Poland.