10-letter words containing a, l, n, c
- applicants — Plural form of applicant.
- archangels — Plural form of archangel.
- arsenicals — Plural form of arsenical.
- arvicoline — inhabiting meadows or rural areas
- ascendable — having the ability to be ascended
- ascendible — Capable of being ascended; climbable.
- avalanched — Simple past tense and past participle of avalanche.
- avalanches — Plural form of avalanche.
- avirulence — The state of being avirulent.
- avunculate — the custom in some societies of assigning rights and duties to a maternal uncle concerning his sister's son
- axenically — in a manner not associated with any other living organism
- bacchanals — Plural form of bacchanal.
- back slang — a type of slang in which words are spelled and, as far as possible, pronounced backwards
- backplanes — Plural form of backplane.
- balanchine — George. 1904–83, US choreographer, born in Russia
- balconette — a lightly padded bra that is designed to lift and enhance the appearance of a woman's bust
- baldacchin — A rich, embroidered brocade used for clothing in the Middle Ages, the web being gold and the woof silk.
- baldachins — Plural form of baldachin.
- balenciaga — Cristobal (krisˈtoβal). 1895–1972, Spanish couturier
- balopticon — a type of stereopticon for projecting images of objects by reflected light.
- bank clerk — an employee of a bank
- barleycorn — a grain of barley, or barley itself
- baroclinic — of, relating to, or having the property of baroclinity.
- bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
- beneficial — Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives.
- bilocation — the existence of something in two places at the same time
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- bionically — utilizing electronic devices and mechanical parts to assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous, or intricate tasks, as by supplementing or duplicating parts of the body: The scientist used a bionic arm to examine the radioactive material.
- black bean — an Australian leguminous tree, Castanospermum australe, having thin smooth bark and yellow or reddish flowers: used in furniture manufacture
- black gang — the crew working in a stokehold of a ship.
- black gnat — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- black hand — a group of Sicilian blackmailers and terrorists formed in the 1870s and operating in the US in the early 20th century
- black knot — a fungal disease of plums and cherries caused by Dibotryon morbosum, characterized by rough black knotlike swellings on the twigs and branches
- black land — a black, clayey soil.
- black lung — pneumoconiosis of coal miners, caused by coal dust; anthracosis.
- black monk — a Benedictine monk
- black ring — a disease of grasses, characterized by black rings surrounding the stems and blighted seeds, caused by a fungus, Balansia strangulans.
- black swan — a phenomenon that occurs even though it had been thought to be impossible
- black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
- blacklands — an area of fertile soil in Texas
- blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- blanc fixe — barium sulfate
- blancmange — Blancmange is a cold dessert that is made from milk, sugar, cornflour or corn starch, and flavouring, and looks rather like jelly.
- blue crane — the great blue heron.
- bnr pascal — ["Remote Rendezvous", N. Gammage et al, Soft Prac & Exp 17(10):741-755 (Oct 1987)].
- bomb lance — a harpoon fitted with an explosive head.
- bone black — a fine charcoal made by burning animal bones in closed containers: used as a pigment, in refining sugar, etc.