9-letter words containing a, c, b, l, e
- 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
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- 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).
- blackbead — cat's-claw.
- blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
- blackener — someone who blackens
- blackface — a performer made up to imitate a Black person
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- blackgame — a large grouse found in northern Europe and Asia
- blackhead — Blackheads are small, dark spots on someone's skin caused by blocked pores.
- blacklead — to colour or rub with black lead
- blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- blackweed — the common ragweed.
- blackwell — Elizabeth1821-1910; 1st woman physician in the U.S., born in England
- blanchett — Cate (keɪt), full name Catherine Elise Blanchett. born 1969, Australian actress; her films include Elizabeth (1998), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03), Notes on a Scandal (2006), and Blue Jasmine (2013) for which she won an Academy Award
- bleachers — The bleachers are a part of an outdoor sports stadium, or the seats in that area, which are usually uncovered and are the least expensive place where people can sit.
- bleachery — a place where bleaching is carried out
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- blockable — able to be blocked or prevented
- blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- blockhead — a stupid person
- 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.
- bold face — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in this dictionary
- bold-face — type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface.
- boldfaced — impudent or forward in manner
- boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
- bracelets — a slang name for handcuffs
- bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
- bracteole — a secondary bract subtending a flower within an inflorescence
- branchlet — a small branch
- bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- cabaletta — a short aria with a repetitive rhythm
- caballero — a Spanish gentleman
- caballine — pertaining to a horse
- cable box — an electronic device that allows cable television channels to be viewed by a subscriber.
- cable car — A cable car is a vehicle for taking people up mountains or steep hills. It is pulled by a moving cable.
- cable tie — a plastic strip with serrations on one end that lock inside an opening on the other end, used to bind things together, especially wires: Wrap all of the cords behind your computer with a cable tie. Officers secured the suspect’s hands with cable ties when they apprehended him.