9-Letter Words Containing: A,B,K,N,R

• a standard by which something can be measured or judged

• a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point

• moving at very high speed

• Any animal with a thorny back, especially marine animals, such as:

• A woman over a certain age (variously 26 or 30) who has never married, older than a spinster.

• the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue

• a mental or physical breakdown

• (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

• a cessation of normal operation

• an analysis into mutually exclusive categories

• (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance

• hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion

• the bank of a river

• a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story

• a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)