8-letter words containing b, a, n, c
- brisance — the shattering effect or power of an explosion or explosive
- bromance — A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men.
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- bucatini — pasta in the shape of long tubes
- buchanan — George. 1506–82, Scottish historian, who was tutor to Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI; author of History of Scotland (1582)
- buckbean — a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- bucovina — Bukovina
- bucrania — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- cab rank — an area, often specially designated, where taxis wait to pick up passengers
- cabernet — a type of grape
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- cabining — Present participle of cabin.
- cabochon — a smooth domed gem, polished but unfaceted
- cabstand — a taxi rank
- cambrian — of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- canberra — the capital of Australia, in Australian Capital Territory: founded in 1913 as a planned capital. Pop: 345 257 (2008)
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- cannabin — a greenish-black poisonous resin obtained from the Indian hemp plant
- cannabis — Cannabis is the hemp plant when it is used as a drug.
- cannibal — Cannibals are people who eat the flesh of other human beings.
- cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
- carbanil — phenyl isocyanate.
- carbarns — Plural form of carbarn.
- carbenes — Plural form of carbene.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- carbinol — methanol
- carbonic — (of a compound) containing carbon, esp tetravalent carbon
- carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
- carborne — travelling by car
- carnauba — a Brazilian fan palm, Copernicia cerifera
- casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
- centibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/100 (0.01) bar or 10,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- chibchan — a family of Indian languages found in Colombia and elsewhere in South America
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- cibation — the act of feeding
- cinnabar — a bright red or brownish-red mineral form of mercuric sulphide (mercury(II) sulphide), found close to areas of volcanic activity and hot springs. It is the main commercial source of mercury. Formula: HgS. Crystal structure: hexagonal
- clangbox — a device fitted to a jet-engine to change the direction of thrust
- claybank — a dull brownish-orange colour
- clayborn — a male given name.
- clubhand — congenital deformity of the hand
- clubland — A city's clubland is the area that contains all the best nightclubs.
- conurban — of or relating to a conurbation
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- corbinas — Plural form of corbina.
- cornball — Cornball means the same as corny.
- corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele