9-letter words containing a, y, c
- baby-face — a smooth round face like a baby's
- babycakes — (slang) Term of endearment for a young woman.
- babyfaced — Alternative spelling of baby-faced.
- bacillary — of, relating to, or caused by bacilli
- back away — If you back away from a commitment that you made or something that you were involved with in the past, you try to show that you are no longer committed to it or involved with it.
- back copy — A back copy of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
- back yard — an area, usually paved, at the rear of a building
- backronym — an existing word turned into an acronym by creating an apt phrase whose initial letters match the word, as to help remember it or offer a theory of its origin. For example, rap has been said to be a backronym of “rhythm and poetry.”.
- backstays — Plural form of backstay.
- backstory — the events which take place before, and which help to bring about, the events portrayed in a film
- backyards — Plural form of backyard.
- ball clay — a fine dark kaolinic clay that turns white or nearly white when fired, used in the manufacture of a wide variety of ceramic wares in combination with other clays for its exceptional bonding properties and plasticity.
- baronetcy — the rank, position, or patent of a baronet
- basic dye — a dye soluble in acid and insoluble in basic solution, consisting mostly of amino or imino compounds of xanthene or triarylmethane: used mainly for inks, carbon paper, and typewriter ribbon.
- basically — You use basically for emphasis when you are stating an opinion, or when you are making an important statement about something.
- bellyache — Bellyache is a pain inside your abdomen, especially in your stomach.
- belomancy — the art of divination using arrows
- biopiracy — the use of wild plants by international companies to develop medicines, without recompensing the countries from which they are taken
- bit decay — bit rot
- bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
- black eye — If someone has a black eye, they have a dark-coloured bruise around their eye.
- black fly — any small blackish stout-bodied dipterous fly of the family Simuliidae, which sucks the blood of man, mammals, and birds
- blackbody — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
- bleachery — a place where bleaching is carried out
- boy racer — British journalists sometimes refer to young men who drive very fast, especially in expensive and powerful cars, as boy racers.
- bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
- branchery — a group or system of branches
- brickclay — any clay suitable for making bricks
- brickyard — a place in which bricks are made, stored, or sold
- 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.
- buckyball — a ball-like polyhedral carbon molecule of the type found in buckminsterfullerene and other fullerenes
- by chance — Something that happens by chance was not planned by anyone.
- c battery — the power source for biasing the control-grid electrodes of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment
- ca' canny — call “canny”; hence, go cautiously
- caa canny — to proceed cautiously; go slow
- cabin boy — a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- cacodylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the cacodyl group.
- cacophony — You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as a cacophony.
- caddisfly — any small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings and aquatic larvae (caddisworms)
- caddishly — in a caddish manner
- cageyness — the quality of being cagey
- calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
- calculary — calculous
- caliology — the study of birds' nests
- callidity — cunning or slyness
- callosity — hardheartedness
- callously — made hard; hardened.
- calmingly — in a calming manner