9-letter words containing a, c, r, b
- black rat — a common rat, Rattus rattus: a household pest that has spread from its native Asia to all countries
- black rod — (in Britain) an officer of the House of Lords and of the Order of the Garter, whose main duty is summoning the Commons at the opening and proroguing of Parliament
- black rot — any of various plant diseases of fruits and vegetables, producing blackening, rotting, and shrivelling and caused by bacteria (including Xanthomonas campestris) and fungi (such as Physalospora malorum)
- black run — an extremely difficult run, suitable for expert skiers
- black tar — black heroin.
- blackacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from whiteacre).
- blackbird — A blackbird is a common European bird. The male has black feathers and a yellow beak, and the female has brown feathers.
- blackburn — a city in NW England, in Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority, Lancashire: formerly important for textiles, now has mixed industries. Pop: 105 085 (2001)
- 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)
- blackwork — embroidery done with black, usually silk, thread on white fabric, especially linen.
- 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
- bomb rack — a device for carrying bombs in or under the fuselage of an aircraft.
- bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- boy racer — British journalists sometimes refer to young men who drive very fast, especially in expensive and powerful cars, as boy racers.
- brabancon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a short, smooth coat.
- bracelets — a slang name for handcuffs
- brachiate — having widely divergent paired branches
- bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
- 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
- brainfuck — (language) An eight-instruction esoteric programming language created by Urban Müller. His goal was apparently to create a Turing-complete language with the smallest compiler ever, for the Amiga OS 2.0. He eventually reduced his compiler to under 200 bytes. A Brainfuck program has a pointer that moves within an array of 30000 bytes, initially all set to zero. The pointer initially points to the beginning of this array. The language has eight commands, each of which is represented as a single character, and which can be expressed in terms of C as follows: > ==> ++p; < ==> --p; + ==> ++*p; - ==> --*p; . ==> putchar(*p); , ==> *p = getchar(); [ ==> while (*p) { ] ==> } Brian Raiter's Brainfuck page.
- brainsick — relating to or caused by insanity; crazy; mad
- branchery — a group or system of branches
- branchiae — the gills of an aquatic animal
- branchial — of or relating to the gills of an aquatic animal, esp a fish
- branching — the occurrence of several decay paths (branches) in the disintegration of a particular nuclide or the de-excitation of an excited atom. The branching fraction (nuclear) or branching ratio (atomic) is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides
- branchio- — gills
- branchlet — a small branch
- brash ice — small, floating fragments of sea ice or river ice.
- brat pack — A brat pack is a group of young people, especially actors or writers, who are popular or successful at the moment.
- 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
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
- brickclay — any clay suitable for making bricks
- brickyard — a place in which bricks are made, stored, or sold
- bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
- bridecake — a wedding cake
- briefcase — A briefcase is a case used for carrying documents in.
- britannic — of Britain; British (esp in the phrases His or Her Britannic Majesty)