9-letter words containing a, b, e, c
- beaconage — a number or system of beacons.
- beaconing — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- bean curd — Bean curd is a soft white or brown food made from soya beans.
- bear claw — a sweet, almond-flavored breakfast pastry made with yeast dough and shaped in an irregular semicircle resembling a bear's claw.
- beat back — to force to retreat; drive back
- becalming — Present participle of becalm.
- beccaccia — a woodcock
- beccafico — any of various European songbirds, esp warblers of the genus Sylvia, eaten as a delicacy in Italy and other countries
- beclamour — to clamour excessively
- bed chair — an adjustable frame for assisting invalids to sit up in bed.
- bed place — a space housing a bed or bedding, especially one having the form of a cupboard closed with doors or curtains.
- bedjacket — A short jacket worn when sitting up in bed, usually by women.
- beechmast — collective term for beech nuts, esp when lying on the ground
- beefcakes — Plural form of beefcake.
- bel canto — a style of singing characterized by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
- bell arch — a round arch resting on prominent corbels.
- bellyache — Bellyache is a pain inside your abdomen, especially in your stomach.
- belomancy — the art of divination using arrows
- benchland — a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains
- benchmark — A benchmark is something whose quality or quantity is known and which can therefore be used as a standard with which other things can be compared.
- bepatched — mended with or covered in patches
- bescatter — to scatter or strew about
- best-case — being the best that can possibly be expected; optimal
- beta cell — B cell (def 2).
- betatopic — (of atoms) differing in proton number by one, theoretically as a result of emission of a beta particle
- bezoardic — relating to bezoar
- bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
- bicaudate — having two tails or taillike appendages.
- biconcave — (of a lens) having concave faces on both sides; concavo-concave
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- bike rack — stand for parking cycles
- bile acid — any of various steroid acids, produced in the liver and stored with bile, that emulsify fats during digestion.
- billerica — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- bioactive — (of a substance) having or producing an effect on living tissue
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bit decay — bit rot
- bitchface — Also called resting bitchface, bitchy resting face, chronic bitchface. (especially of a woman) a facial expression that does not consciously express a particular emotion but that others perceive as scowling, threatening, etc.: I can’t help that I have resting bitchface. Her face naturally goes into a bitchface, but I promise she’s super friendly. I’m not angry, I just have chronic bitch face. Abbreviation: RBF. (especially of a woman) a deliberate facial expression of anger or disgust, often employed to appear unapproachable: I put on my bitchface when I ride the train so creepy guys don’t talk to me. It’s important to perfect your bitchface.
- bite back — If you bite back a feeling or something that you were going to say, you stop yourself from expressing it.
- bivalence — the semantic principle that there are exactly two truth values, so that every meaningful statement is either true or false
- bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
- black eye — If someone has a black eye, they have a dark-coloured bruise around their eye.
- black ice — Black ice is a thin, transparent layer of ice on a road or path that is very difficult to see.
- black sea — an inland sea between SE Europe and Asia: connected to the Aegean Sea by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, and to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait. Area: about 415 000 sq km (160 000 sq miles)
- black tea — tea withered and fermented before being dried by heating
- black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
- black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
- blackacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from whiteacre).