8-letter words containing n, i, s
- aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- avidness — a desire to advance; eagerness
- avionics — Avionics is the science of electronics used in aviation.
- avoision — the non-payment of tax which cannot be classified as either avoidance or evasion
- avulsion — a forcible tearing away or separation of a bodily structure or part, either as the result of injury or as an intentional surgical procedure
- babykins — Fond term of address for a baby, child, or lover.
- backings — Plural form of backing.
- backlins — backward; back.
- backspin — a backward spinning motion imparted to a ball to reduce its speed at impact, as by hitting it with a downward or undercutting motion
- baconism — of or relating to the philosopher Francis Bacon or his doctrines.
- bailings — Plural form of bailing.
- bailsman — someone who stands bail for another
- bailsmen — Plural form of bailsman.
- bairnish — childish
- balinese — of or relating to Bali, its people, or their language
- bambinos — Plural form of bambino.
- banalise — to render or make banal; trivialize: Television has often been accused of banalizing even the most serious subjects.
- banausic — merely mechanical; materialistic; utilitarian
- bandfish — a Mediterranean fish with an elongated body
- banished — Simple past tense and past participle of banish.
- banisher — someone who or something which banishes
- banishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of banish.
- banister — A banister is a rail supported by posts and fixed along the side of a staircase. The plural banisters can be used to refer to one of these rails.
- banjoist — a musical instrument of the guitar family, having a circular body covered in front with tightly stretched parchment and played with the fingers or a plectrum.
- banksias — Plural form of banksia.
- bankside — the sloping side of any bank
- bantings — Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
- bargains — Plural form of bargain.
- barkings — Plural form of barking.
- baronies — Plural form of barony.
- barrings — Plural form of barring.
- bas-rhin — a department of NE France in Alsace region. Capital: Strasbourg. Pop: 1 052 698 (2003 est). Area: 4793 sq km (1869 sq miles)
- basanite — a black basaltic rock containing plagioclase, augite, olivine, and nepheline, leucite, or analcite, formerly used as a touchstone
- baseline — The baseline of a tennis, badminton, or basketball court is one of the lines at each end of the court that mark the limits of play.
- bashings — Plural form of bashing.
- basildon — a town in SE England, in S Essex: designated a new town in 1955. Pop: 99 876 (2001)
- basilian — a monk of the Eastern Christian order of St Basil, founded in Cappadocia in the 4th century ad
- basinful — As much as a basin will hold.
- basquine — a tight-fitting bodice worn by women in the Basque region and in Spain
- bassinet — A bassinet is a small bed for a baby that is like a basket.
- bassline — (in jazz, rock, and pop music) the part played by the bass guitar
- bastions — Plural form of bastion.
- batinism — a secret movement in Islam, often associated with Ismaʿili Shiʿism.
- batlings — Plural form of batling.
- batswing — in the form of the wing of a bat
- bayesian — (of a theory) presupposing known a priori probabilities which may be subjectively assessed and which can be revised in the light of experience in accordance with Bayes' theorem. A hypothesis is thus confirmed by an experimental observation which is likely given the hypothesis and unlikely without it
- beadings — Plural form of beading.
- bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
- bearskin — A bearskin is a tall fur hat that is worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions.
- beatings — Plural form of beating.