10-letter words containing b, a, c
- beachheads — Plural form of beachhead.
- beachscape — a section or expanse of beach and shore scenery.
- beam brick — a face brick for bonding to a concrete lintel poured in place, having a section like a right triangle.
- beam reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- bean caper — a shrub, Zygophyllum fabago, of E Mediterranean regions, whose flower buds are eaten as a substitute for capers: family Zygophyllaceae
- beast epic — a long verse narrative in which the misadventures of animals satirize human foibles and follies.
- beatifical — Beatific.
- beautician — A beautician is a person whose job is giving people beauty treatments such as doing their nails, treating their skin, and putting on their make-up.
- because of — If an event or situation occurs because of something, that thing is the reason or cause.
- bed jacket — a woman's short upper garment worn over a nightgown when sitting up in bed
- bedchamber — A bedchamber is a bedroom.
- beech mast — the edible nuts of the beech, especially when lying on the ground.
- bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
- bellacoola — a member of a riverine tribe of North American Indians inhabiting an area near the central coast of British Columbia.
- belly pack — fanny pack.
- bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- benacerraf — Baruj. 1920–2011, Venezuelan-born US immunologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1980) for his work on histocompatibility antigens
- bench mark — a surveyor's mark made on a permanent landmark of known position and altitude: it is used as a reference point in determining other altitudes
- bench seat — a seat for more than one person
- bench-made — (of articles made of leather, wood, etc.) individually produced and finished, as on a carpenter's bench; custom-made.
- benefactor — A benefactor is a person who helps a person or organization by giving them money.
- beneficial — Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives.
- benignancy — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- benzocaine — a white crystalline ester used as a local anaesthetic; ethyl para-aminobenzoate. Formula: C9H11NO2
- berecyntia — Cybele.
- bergamasca — a fast dance similar to the tarantella.
- beta decay — the radioactive transformation of an atomic nucleus accompanying the emission of an electron. It involves unit change of atomic number but none in mass number
- beta stock — any of the second rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange, of which there are about 500. Continuous display of prices by market makers is required but not immediate publication of transactions
- betacyanin — any one of a group of red nitrogenous pigments found in certain plants, such as beetroot
- betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
- biblically — of or in the Bible: a Biblical name.
- biblioteca — a library.
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- bichromate — dichromate
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bicorporal — having two bodies, main divisions, symbols, etc.
- bicultural — having two cultures
- bienseance — good breeding; decorum
- bifacially — from a bifacial point of view
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
- bilocation — the existence of something in two places at the same time
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- bimetallic — consisting of two metals
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- 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
- biocellate — (of animals and plants) marked with two eyelike spots or ocelli
- bioclastic — (of deposits, esp limestones) derived from shell fragments or similar organic remains
- biodynamic — the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms (opposed to biostatics).