4-letter words containing n, b
- born — When a baby is born, it comes out of its mother's body at the beginning of its life. In formal English, if you say that someone is born of someone or to someone, you mean that person is their parent.
- boun — prepared, ready
- bran — Bran is the outer skin of grain that is left when the grain has been used to make flour.
- bren — type of machine gun
- brin — one of two filaments of silk combined by the silkworm to form a strand of silk
- brno — a city in the Czech Republic; formerly the capital of Moravia: the country's second largest city. Pop: 375 000 (2005 est)
- buna — a synthetic rubber formed by polymerizing butadiene or by copolymerizing it with such compounds as acrylonitrile or styrene
- bund — an embankment; dyke
- bung — A bung is a round piece of wood, cork, or rubber which you use to close the hole in a container such as a barrel or flask.
- bunk — A bunk is a bed that is fixed to a wall, especially in a ship or caravan.
- bunn — bun1 (def 1).
- buns — the buttocks
- bunt — In baseball, if you bunt or if you bunt the ball, you deliberately hit the ball softly, in order to gain an advantage.
- burn — If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
- byng — George, Viscount Torrington. 1663–1733, British admiral: defeated fleet of James Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, off Scotland (1708); defeated Spanish fleet off Messina (1717)
- cbrn — (of weapons or warfare) chemical, bacteriological, radiological, or nuclear
- eban — Abba [ah-buh] /ˈɑ bə/ (Show IPA), (Aubrey Solomon Eban) 1915–2002, Israeli political leader and diplomat, born in South Africa.
- eben — Eye dialect even, representing AAVE.
- ebnf — (language) Extended Backus-Naur Form.
- ebon — ebony (def 6).
- enob — effective number of bits
- iban — Also called Sea Dayak. a member of any of several Dayak tribes of Sarawak.
- ibn- — son of
- inbd — inboard (on an aircraft, a boat, etc)
- inby — into the house or an inner room; inside; within
- isbn — International Standard Book Number
- knab — (colloquial) To nab or steal.
- knob — a projecting part, usually rounded, forming the handle of a door, drawer, or the like.
- knub — the point, gist, or heart of something.
- nabe — a neighborhood movie theater.
- nabi — a prophet.
- nabk — a prickly shrub, Ziziphus spina-christi, native to Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern areas
- nabs — Simple past tense and past participle of nab.
- nbpa — National Basketball Players Association
- nebe — northeast by east
- nebn — northeast by north
- nebo — Mt. See under Pisgah.
- nebs — Plural form of neb.
- neeb — A kind of spirit according to Hmong beliefs.
- newb — (Internet slang, leet, sometimes, pejorative) A newbie; someone that is new at a game, or has a new character.
- nheb — New Hebrew
- nibs — the point of a pen, or either of its divisions.
- nimb — A nimbus or halo.
- nkgb — (formerly) People's Commissariat of State Security: the Soviet secret police from 1943 to 1946
- nlrb — National Labor Relations Board: a US government agency which mediates disputes between management and trade unions
- nobs — a person of wealth or social importance.
- noob — newbie
- ntsb — National Transportation Safety Board
- ntub — National Trade Union Bodies
- nuba — a member of a formerly warlike Nilotic people living chiefly in the hills of S central Sudan