9-letter words containing a, b, c, u
- black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
- black run — an extremely difficult run, suitable for expert skiers
- blackbuck — an Indian antelope, Antilope cervicapra, the male of which has spiral horns, a dark back, and a white belly
- blackburn — a city in NW England, in Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority, Lancashire: formerly important for textiles, now has mixed industries. Pop: 105 085 (2001)
- blackbutt — any of various Australian eucalyptus trees having rough fibrous bark and hard wood used as timber
- blue crab — any of a genus (Callinectes) of crabs, esp. a blue-legged, edible swimming species (C. sapidus) of the Atlantic coast of North America
- blue jack — a small salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, of the North Pacific coasts and also in the Great Lakes, where it was introduced: important as a game and food fish.
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- brainfuck — (language) An eight-instruction esoteric programming language created by Urban Müller. His goal was apparently to create a Turing-complete language with the smallest compiler ever, for the Amiga OS 2.0. He eventually reduced his compiler to under 200 bytes. A Brainfuck program has a pointer that moves within an array of 30000 bytes, initially all set to zero. The pointer initially points to the beginning of this array. The language has eight commands, each of which is represented as a single character, and which can be expressed in terms of C as follows: > ==> ++p; < ==> --p; + ==> ++*p; - ==> --*p; . ==> putchar(*p); , ==> *p = getchar(); [ ==> while (*p) { ] ==> } Brian Raiter's Brainfuck page.
- brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
- buccaneer — A buccaneer was a pirate, especially one who attacked and stole from Spanish ships in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- bucentaur — the state barge of Venice from which the doge and other officials dropped a ring into the sea on Ascension Day to symbolize the ceremonial marriage of the state with the Adriatic
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- buck bean — a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, of the gentian family, having narrow clusters of white or pink flowers.
- buckboard — an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
- buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
- buckyball — a ball-like polyhedral carbon molecule of the type found in buckminsterfullerene and other fullerenes
- bucranium — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- bull calf — a male calf
- bullwhack — to flog with a short whip
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- bushwhack — to ambush
- busticate — to break
- cabassous — Plural form of cabassou.
- calabogus — a mixed drink containing rum, spruce beer, and molasses
- calembour — a pun
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- carbuncle — A carbuncle is a large swelling under the skin.
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- carburate — carburet.
- carburize — to increase the carbon content of (the surface of a low-carbon steel) so that the surface can be hardened by heat treatment
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- cat-built — (of a sailing vessel) having a bluff bow and straight stern without a figurehead.
- cetuximab — a monoclonal antibody used to treat cancer
- chasubles — Plural form of chasuble.
- chequable — (finance, of an account) On which cheques can be drawn.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- club card — A club card is a card issued by a retailer which allows the card holder to make discounted purchases.
- club deal — a takeover bid in which several private-equity companies form a syndicate to acquire a target company
- club hand — a deformity of the hand, analogous to club foot
- club soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
- club sofa — a heavily upholstered sofa having solid sides and a low back.
- clubbable — A clubbable person is friendly and likes being with other people, which makes them good members of social clubs.
- clubfaces — Plural form of clubface.
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.