9-letter words containing a, c, e, l, r
- bell arch — a round arch resting on prominent corbels.
- bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
- billerica — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- blackacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from whiteacre).
- blackener — someone who blackens
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- caballero — a Spanish gentleman
- cable car — A cable car is a vehicle for taking people up mountains or steep hills. It is pulled by a moving cable.
- cablegram — a message sent by undersea cable
- cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
- calabrese — a variety of green sprouting broccoli
- calcarate — having a calcar
- calcarine — resembling, related to, or having a calcar
- calembour — a pun
- calendars — Plural form of calendar.
- calenders — Plural form of calender.
- calendric — Of or pertaining to a calendar.
- calenture — a mild fever of tropical climates, similar in its symptoms to sunstroke
- calfdozer — a small bulldozer
- calibered — the diameter of something of circular section, especially that of the inside of a tube: a pipe of three-inch caliber.
- calibrate — If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
- calipered — Simple past tense and past participle of caliper.
- call rate — the interest rate on a call loan
- call-over — a preliminary hearing
- caller id — A telephone that has caller ID displays the telephone number and name of the person who is calling you.
- callipers — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calvaries — Plural form of calvary.
- cameleers — Plural form of cameleer.
- camelhair — the hair of the camel or dromedary, used in clothing, rugs, etc
- canaveral — Capecape on the E coast of Fla.: U.S. proving ground for missiles and spacecraft
- canceleer — (of a hawk) to turn in flight when a stoop fails, in order to re-attempt it
- canceller — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- cannelure — a groove or fluting, esp one around the cylindrical part of a bullet
- caprifole — honeysuckle
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- caprylate — a salt of caprylic acid
- caracoled — Simple past tense and past participle of caracole.
- caracoler — a horse that caracoles
- caracoles — Plural form of caracole.