9-letter words containing a, l, n, c
- basilican — basilic (def 2).
- basilicon — any of a variety of healing ointments applied to wounds in early medicine, commonly using lard or oil, resin, and wax
- bc neliac — Version of NELIAC, post 1962. Sammet 1969, p.197.
- becalming — Present participle of becalm.
- bel canto — a style of singing characterized by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
- belomancy — the art of divination using arrows
- benchland — a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains
- biconical — an object shaped like two cones with their bases together.
- binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- bivalence — the semantic principle that there are exactly two truth values, so that every meaningful statement is either true or false
- bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
- black bun — a very rich dark fruitcake, usually in a pastry case
- black run — an extremely difficult run, suitable for expert skiers
- blackband — a type of iron carbonate
- 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)
- blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
- blackener — someone who blackens
- blackland — an area of dark peaty soil
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
- blanchett — Cate (keɪt), full name Catherine Elise Blanchett. born 1969, Australian actress; her films include Elizabeth (1998), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03), Notes on a Scandal (2006), and Blue Jasmine (2013) for which she won an Academy Award
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- blitz can — Military. jerry can (def 1).
- blitz-can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
- 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
- botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
- bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
- bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
- branchial — of or relating to the gills of an aquatic animal, esp a fish
- branchlet — a small branch
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- caballine — pertaining to a horse
- caballing — a small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority.
- cacholong — a type of opal, commonly of a milky colour
- cacuminal — relating to or denoting a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue turned back towards the hard palate
- cadential — relating to or belonging to a cadence or a cadenza
- caecilian — any tropical limbless cylindrical amphibian of the order Apoda (or Gymnophiona), resembling earthworms and inhabiting moist soil
- cagelings — Plural form of cageling.
- calabrian — of or relating to Calabria or its inhabitants
- calamanco — a glossy woollen fabric woven with a checked design that shows on one side only
- calandria — a cylindrical vessel through which tubes pass, esp one forming part of an evaporator, heat exchanger, or nuclear reactor
- calavance — any of several varieties of pulse yielded by plants of the genus Dolichos
- calcaneal — Anatomy. the largest tarsal bone, forming the prominence of the heel.
- calcanean — Anatomy. the largest tarsal bone, forming the prominence of the heel.
- calcaneum — calcaneus.
- calcaneus — the largest tarsal bone, forming the heel in man
- calcarine — resembling, related to, or having a calcar
- calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
- calcimine — a white or pale tinted wash for walls