6-letter words containing n, o
- beaton — Sir Cecil (Walter Hardy). 1904–80, British photographer, noted esp for his society portraits
- beckon — If you beckon to someone, you signal to them to come to you.
- beento — a person who has resided in Britain, esp during part of his or her education
- beeton — Isabella Mary, known as Mrs Beeton. 1836–65, British cookery writer, author of The Book of Household Management (1861)
- begone — go away!
- beknot — to tie a knot or knots in
- belong — If something belongs to you, you own it.
- belton — a town in W Missouri.
- bemoan — If you bemoan something, you express sorrow or dissatisfaction about it.
- benbow — John. 1653–1702, English admiral, noted esp for his heroic death during the War of the Spanish Succession
- benoit — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (or Peter) Léonard Léopold [ley-aw-nar ley-aw-pawld] /leɪ ɔˈnar leɪ ɔˈpɔld/ (Show IPA), 1834–1901, Belgian composer.
- benoni — a city in NE South Africa: gold mines. Pop: 94 341 (2001)
- benson — E(dward) F(rederic). 1867–1940, British writer, noted esp for a series of comic novels featuring the characters Mapp and Lucia
- benton — Thomas Hart. 1889–1975, US painter of rural life; a leader of the American Regionalist painters in the 1930s
- benzo- — indicating a benzene ring fused to another ring in a polycyclic compound
- benzol — a crude form of benzene, containing toluene, xylene, and other hydrocarbons, obtained from coal tar or coal gas and used as a fuel
- besnow — to whiten
- besoin — need
- betony — a Eurasian plant, Stachys (or Betonica) officinalis, with a spike of reddish-purple flowers, formerly used in medicine and dyeing: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- beyond — If something is beyond a place or barrier, it is on the other side of it.
- bianco — Mon·te [mawn-te] /ˈmɔn tɛ/ (Show IPA). Italian name of Mont Blanc.
- bicone — an object shaped like two cones with their bases together.
- bicorn — having two horns or hornlike parts
- bicron — a billionth part of a metre
- big on — enthusiastic about
- billon — an alloy consisting of gold or silver and a base metal, usually copper, used esp for coinage
- biniou — a small high-pitched Breton bagpipe
- binocs — binoculars
- binyon — (Robert) Laurence. 1869–1943, British poet and art historian, best known for his elegiac war poems "For the Fallen" (1914) and "The Burning of the Leaves" (1944)
- biogen — a hypothetical protein assumed to be the basis of the formation and functioning of body cells and tissues
- biondi — Matt(hew) born 1965, U.S. swimmer.
- bionic — In science fiction books or films, a bionic person is someone who has special powers, such as being exceptionally strong or having exceptionally good sight, because parts of their body have been replaced by electronic machinery.
- biotin — a vitamin of the B complex, abundant in egg yolk and liver, deficiency of which causes dermatitis and loss of hair. Formula: C10H16N2O3S
- bisson — blind
- bizone — an area comprising two administrative zones
- blanco — Serge (sɛrʒ). born 1958, French Rugby Union footballer; won 93 caps (1980–91) and scored 38 tries in internationals (a French record)
- blazon — to proclaim loudly and publicly
- blonde — A woman who has blonde hair has pale-coloured hair. Blonde hair can be very light brown or light yellow. The form blond is used when describing men.
- blyton — Enid (Mary). 1897–1968, British writer of children's books; creator of Noddy and the Famous Five series of adventure stories
- bo's'n — boatswain
- bobbin — A bobbin is a small round object on which thread or wool is wound to hold it, for example on a sewing machine.
- bobrun — an ice-covered course for bobsledding consisting of a chute with high walls, banked turns, and straightaways.
- boding — an omen; foreboding
- bodkin — a blunt large-eyed needle used esp for drawing tape through openwork
- bodmin — a market town in SW England, in Cornwall, near Bodmin Moor, a granite upland rising to 420 m (1375 ft). Pop: 12 778 (2001)
- bodoni — a style of type designed by the Italian printer Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813)
- boeing — (language) An early system on the IBM 1130.
- boffin — A boffin is a scientist, especially one who is doing research.
- bog in — to start energetically on a task
- bogman — the body of a person found preserved in a peat bog