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9-letter words containing a, c

  • bandicoot — any agile terrestrial marsupial of the family Peramelidae of Australia and New Guinea. They have a long pointed muzzle and a long tail and feed mainly on small invertebrates
  • bank card — A bank card is a plastic card which your bank gives you so you can get money from your bank account using a cash machine. It is also called an ATM card in American English. In Britain, you also use bank cards to prove who you are when you pay for something by cheque.
  • baptistic — Of or for baptism; baptismal.
  • bar chart — A bar chart is a graph which uses parallel rectangular shapes to represent changes in the size, value, or rate of something or to compare the amount of something relating to a number of different countries or groups.
  • bar chord — a musical chord that is played on a stringed instrument using the barré technique.
  • bar clamp — a clamp having two jaws attached to a bar, one fixed and the other adjustable by means of a screw mechanism.
  • bar ditch — a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes.
  • bar snack — a light quick meal, such as a sandwich or pie, served in a bar
  • baracaldo — city in The Basque Country, N Spain: pop. 105,000
  • barachois — (in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada) a shallow lagoon formed by a sand bar
  • barbecued — Cooked in a barbecue.
  • barbecuer — someone who cooks using a barbecue
  • barbecues — Plural form of barbecue.
  • barbicels — Plural form of barbicel.
  • barcarole — a Venetian boat song in a time of six or twelve quaver beats to the bar
  • barcelona — the chief port of Spain, on the NE Mediterranean coast: seat of the Republican government during the Civil War (1936–39); the commercial capital of Spain. Pop: 1 582 738 (2003 est)
  • barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
  • barefaced — You use barefaced to describe someone's behavior when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly.
  • bariatric — of or relating to the treatment of obesity
  • barkcloth — Cloth made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry or similar tree.
  • barm cake — a round flat soft bread roll
  • barmbrack — a loaf of bread with currants in it
  • 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
  • barocchio — Giacomo (ˈdʒakomo)
  • 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.
  • barracoon — (formerly) a temporary place of confinement for slaves or convicts, esp those awaiting transportation
  • barracuda — A barracuda is a large tropical sea fish that eats other fish.
  • barrancas — Plural form of barranca.
  • 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.
  • barricado — a barricade.
  • base camp — an encampment that serves as a staging area for a larger activity, for example in mountaineering
  • base coat — the first coat of paint applied to a prepared surface
  • basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
  • basic dye — a dye soluble in acid and insoluble in basic solution, consisting mostly of amino or imino compounds of xanthene or triarylmethane: used mainly for inks, carbon paper, and typewriter ribbon.
  • basically — You use basically for emphasis when you are stating an opinion, or when you are making an important statement about something.
  • basicness — Quality or degree of being basic.
  • basilical — royal, regal
  • basilican — basilic (def 2).
  • basilicas — Plural form of basilica.
  • basilicon — any of a variety of healing ointments applied to wounds in early medicine, commonly using lard or oil, resin, and wax
  • bass clef — the clef that establishes F a fifth below middle C on the fourth line of the staff
  • batchelor — (British) alternative spelling of bachelor.
  • batchmate — (India) classmate.
  • bath chap — the lower part of the cheek of a pig, cooked and eaten, usually cold
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