9-letter words containing a, c
- brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
- buccaneer — A buccaneer was a pirate, especially one who attacked and stole from Spanish ships in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- bucentaur — the state barge of Venice from which the doge and other officials dropped a ring into the sea on Ascension Day to symbolize the ceremonial marriage of the state with the Adriatic
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- buck bean — a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, of the gentian family, having narrow clusters of white or pink flowers.
- buckboard — an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
- buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
- buckyball — a ball-like polyhedral carbon molecule of the type found in buckminsterfullerene and other fullerenes
- bucranium — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- bull calf — a male calf
- bullwhack — to flog with a short whip
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- bushwhack — to ambush
- busticate — to break
- by chance — Something that happens by chance was not planned by anyone.
- c & b — caught and bowled (by)
- c & f — cost and freight
- c & g — City and Guilds
- c & m — care and maintenance
- c & w — country and western
- c battery — the power source for biasing the control-grid electrodes of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment
- c rations — tinned food formerly issued in packs to US soldiers
- c-spanner — a sickle-shaped spanner having a projection at the end of the curve, used for turning large narrow nuts that have an indentation into which the projection on the spanner fits
- ca' canny — call “canny”; hence, go cautiously
- caa canny — to proceed cautiously; go slow
- cab stand — A cab stand is a place where taxis wait for passengers, for example, at an airport or outside a station.
- cabaletta — a short aria with a repetitive rhythm
- caballero — a Spanish gentleman
- caballine — pertaining to a horse
- caballing — a small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority.
- cabassous — Plural form of cabassou.
- cabbalism — cabala.
- cabbalist — cabala.
- cabdriver — a taxi driver
- cabernets — Plural form of cabernet.
- cabin boy — a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cabinmate — a person with whom one shares a cabin
- cable box — an electronic device that allows cable television channels to be viewed by a subscriber.
- cable car — A cable car is a vehicle for taking people up mountains or steep hills. It is pulled by a moving cable.
- 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.
- cablecast — the transmission of a TV programme via a cable system
- cablegram — a message sent by undersea cable
- cablelaid — noting a rope formed of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction; hawser-laid.
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- cabo rojo — a city in SW Puerto Rico.
- cabochons — Plural form of cabochon.