9-letter words containing b, a, c, i, l
- billerica — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- bilocular — divided into two chambers or cavities
- binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- biosocial — relating to the interaction of biological and social elements
- biradical — a molecule with two centres
- bird call — a sound made by a bird.
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- 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 ice — Black ice is a thin, transparent layer of ice on a road or path that is very difficult to see.
- black pit — a disease of lemons, characterized by dark brown, sunken spots on the skin of the fruit, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas syringae.
- black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
- black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
- blackbird — A blackbird is a common European bird. The male has black feathers and a yellow beak, and the female has brown feathers.
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
- blacklist — If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong.
- blackmail — Blackmail is the action of threatening to reveal a secret about someone, unless they do something you tell them to do, such as giving you money.
- blacktail — a variety of mule deer having a black tail
- 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.
- botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
- bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
- branchial — of or relating to the gills of an aquatic animal, esp a fish
- brickclay — any clay suitable for making bricks
- bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
- 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.
- cabbalism — cabala.
- cabbalist — cabala.
- 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.
- cablelaid — noting a rope formed of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction; hawser-laid.
- cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
- calabrian — of or relating to Calabria or its inhabitants
- calibered — the diameter of something of circular section, especially that of the inside of a tube: a pipe of three-inch caliber.
- calibrate — If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
- cannibals — Plural form of cannibal.
- cantabile — (to be performed) in a singing style, i.e. flowingly and melodiously
- carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
- carbolize — to treat or sterilize with phenol
- carriable — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- cat-built — (of a sailing vessel) having a bluff bow and straight stern without a figurehead.
- catabolic — destructive metabolism; the breaking down in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones, with the release of energy (opposed to anabolism).
- celibates — Plural form of celibate.
- celibatic — of or relating to celibacy
- chainbelt — a belt made up of metal links, used as a conveyor or with a chain gear.
- chalybite — siderite (def 1).