9-letter words containing a, r, c, b, k
- black rat — a common rat, Rattus rattus: a household pest that has spread from its native Asia to all countries
- black rod — (in Britain) an officer of the House of Lords and of the Order of the Garter, whose main duty is summoning the Commons at the opening and proroguing of Parliament
- black rot — any of various plant diseases of fruits and vegetables, producing blackening, rotting, and shrivelling and caused by bacteria (including Xanthomonas campestris) and fungi (such as Physalospora malorum)
- black run — an extremely difficult run, suitable for expert skiers
- black tar — black heroin.
- blackacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from whiteacre).
- blackbird — A blackbird is a common European bird. The male has black feathers and a yellow beak, and the female has brown feathers.
- 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)
- blackener — someone who blackens
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
- blackwork — embroidery done with black, usually silk, thread on white fabric, especially linen.
- bomb rack — a device for carrying bombs in or under the fuselage of an aircraft.
- bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- 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)
- 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
- brat pack — A brat pack is a group of young people, especially actors or writers, who are popular or successful at the moment.
- 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.
- brickclay — any clay suitable for making bricks
- brickyard — a place in which bricks are made, stored, or sold
- bridecake — a wedding cake
- brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
- buckboard — an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
- canebrake — a thicket of canes
- canebreak — Alternative spelling of canebrake.
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- carryback — (in U.S. income-tax law) a special provision allowing part of a net loss or of an unused credit in a given year to be apportioned over one or two preceding years, chiefly in order to ease the tax burden. Compare carry·forward (def 2).
- chairback — the part of a chair that supports the sitter's back
- corkboard — a thin slab made of granules of cork, used as a floor or wall finish and as an insulator
- crab cake — patty made of crab meat
- crabstick — a stick, cane, or cudgel made of crab-apple wood
- crackable — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackback — (in American football) an illegal block made by an offensive player
- crampbark — a large deciduous shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the Caprifoliaceae family, native to Europe and eastern parts of North America
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- crookback — a hunchback
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
- draw back — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- drawbacks — Plural form of drawback.
- drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
- firebacks — Plural form of fireback.
- flareback — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- gernsback — Hugo, 1884–1967, U.S. publisher and inventor, born in Belgium: a pioneer in science-fiction publishing.
- graybacks — Plural form of grayback.