9-letter words containing a, c, l, i
- becalming — Present participle of becalm.
- bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
- bicipital — having two heads
- bicoastal — Someone or something that is bicoastal lives or occurs on both the east coast and the west coast of the U.S.
- biconical — an object shaped like two cones with their bases together.
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- 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.
- bilocular — divided into two chambers or cavities
- binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- biosocial — relating to the interaction of biological and social elements
- biradical — a molecule with two centres
- bird call — a sound made by a bird.
- 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 ice — Black ice is a thin, transparent layer of ice on a road or path that is very difficult to see.
- black pit — a disease of lemons, characterized by dark brown, sunken spots on the skin of the fruit, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas syringae.
- 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.
- blackbird — A blackbird is a common European bird. The male has black feathers and a yellow beak, and the female has brown feathers.
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
- blacklist — If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong.
- blackmail — Blackmail is the action of threatening to reveal a secret about someone, unless they do something you tell them to do, such as giving you money.
- blacktail — a variety of mule deer having a black tail
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- blitz can — Military. jerry can (def 1).
- blitz-can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
- botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
- bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
- branchial — of or relating to the gills of an aquatic animal, esp a fish
- brickclay — any clay suitable for making bricks
- bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- caballine — pertaining to a horse
- caballing — a small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority.
- cabbalism — cabala.
- cabbalist — cabala.
- 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.
- cablelaid — noting a rope formed of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction; hawser-laid.
- cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
- cacodylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the cacodyl group.
- cacomixle — Alternative spelling of cacomixl.
- cacuminal — relating to or denoting a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue turned back towards the hard palate
- caddisfly — any small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings and aquatic larvae (caddisworms)
- caddishly — in a caddish manner
- cadential — relating to or belonging to a cadence or a cadenza
- caecilian — any tropical limbless cylindrical amphibian of the order Apoda (or Gymnophiona), resembling earthworms and inhabiting moist soil