9-letter words containing a, c, e, r, b
- barm cake — a round flat soft bread roll
- barmecide — lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
- barnacled — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- barnacles — nose pincers for controlling an unruly horse
- baronetcy — the rank, position, or patent of a baronet
- baroscope — any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- barracked — Simple past tense and past participle of barrack.
- barracker — to shout boisterously for or against a player or team; root or jeer.
- barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
- batchelor — (British) alternative spelling of bachelor.
- beachgoer — a person who goes to the beach, esp frequently
- beachwear — Beachwear is the things people wear for swimming.
- 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.
- beclamour — to clamour excessively
- bed chair — an adjustable frame for assisting invalids to sit up in bed.
- bell arch — a round arch resting on prominent corbels.
- 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.
- bescatter — to scatter or strew about
- bezoardic — relating to bezoar
- bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
- 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
- billerica — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- 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
- boy racer — British journalists sometimes refer to young men who drive very fast, especially in expensive and powerful cars, as boy racers.
- bracelets — a slang name for handcuffs
- brachiate — having widely divergent paired branches
- bracketed — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
- bracteate — (of a plant) having bracts
- bracteole — a secondary bract subtending a flower within an inflorescence
- braincase — the part of the cranium that protects the brain
- branchery — a group or system of branches
- branchiae — the gills of an aquatic animal
- branchlet — a small branch
- brash ice — small, floating fragments of sea ice or river ice.
- breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- breakback — backbreaking; extremely heavy
- breakneck — If you say that something happens or travels at breakneck speed, you mean that it happens or travels very fast.
- brecciate — to form into breccia