9-letter words containing a, c
- bold face — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in this dictionary
- bold-face — type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface.
- boldfaced — impudent or forward in manner
- bomb rack — a device for carrying bombs in or under the fuselage of an aircraft.
- bombastic — If you describe someone as bombastic, you are criticizing them for trying to impress other people by saying things that sound impressive but have little meaning.
- boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
- bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
- bookstack — Usually, bookstacks. stack (def 4).
- boot camp — In the United States, a boot camp is a camp where people who have just joined the army, navy, or marines are trained.
- bootblack — a person whose work is shining shoes and boots
- bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
- 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)
- broach to — to turn or swing so that the beam faces the waves and wind and there is danger of swamping or capsizing
- broachers — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.