10-letter words containing b, c, e
- 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.
- bewitchery — a bewitching power; charm
- bewitching — enchanting; charming; fascinating.
- biblioteca — a library.
- bice green — a medium to bright yellow-green color.
- bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
- bichromate — dichromate
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bienseance — good breeding; decorum
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- big cheese — Someone who has a very important job or position can be referred to as a big cheese.
- big screen — When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.
- big ticket — costing a great deal; expensive: fur coats and other big-ticket items.
- big-ticket — If you describe something as a big-ticket item, you mean that it costs a lot of money.
- bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- bimetallic — consisting of two metals
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- biocellate — (of animals and plants) marked with two eyelike spots or ocelli
- biocenosis — a community of biologically integrated and interdependent plants and animals
- biocentric — centered in life; having life as its principal fact.
- biochemist — A biochemist is a scientist or student who studies biochemistry.
- bioecology — the science that deals with the interrelations of communities of animals and plants with their environment
- biogenetic — genetic engineering.
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- biometrics — that branch of biology which deals with its data statistically and by mathematical analysis
- biomimetic — (of a human-made product) imitating nature or a natural process
- bioprocess — a method or operation of preparing a biological material, especially a product of genetic engineering, for commercial use.
- bioreactor — a machine for growing organisms
- bioscience — the life sciences collectively
- biospheric — relating to the biosphere
- birch beer — a carbonated or fermented drink containing an extract from the bark of the birch tree.
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- bit bucket — (jargon) 1. (Or "write-only memory", "WOM") The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have "gone to the bit bucket". On Unix, often used for /dev/null. Sometimes amplified as "the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky". 2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually go. The selection is performed according to Finagle's Law; important mail is much more likely to end up in the bit bucket than junk mail, which has an almost 100% probability of getting delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is automatically performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the lower layers of the network. 3. The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: "Flames about this article to the bit bucket." Such a request is guaranteed to overflow one's mailbox with flames. 4. Excuse for all mail that has not been sent. "I mailed you those figures last week; they must have landed in the bit bucket." Compare black hole. This term is used purely in jest. It is based on the fanciful notion that bits are objects that are not destroyed but only misplaced. This appears to have been a mutation of an earlier term "bit box", about which the same legend was current; old-time hackers also report that trainees used to be told that when the CPU stored bits into memory it was actually pulling them "out of the bit box". Another variant of this legend has it that, as a consequence of the "parity preservation law", the number of 1 bits that go to the bit bucket must equal the number of 0 bits. Any imbalance results in bits filling up the bit bucket. A qualified computer technician can empty a full bit bucket as part of scheduled maintenance. In contrast, a "chad box" is a real container used to catch chad. This may be related to the origin of the term "bit bucket" [Comments ?].
- bitchiness — characteristic of a bitch; spiteful; malicious.
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- black bean — an Australian leguminous tree, Castanospermum australe, having thin smooth bark and yellow or reddish flowers: used in furniture manufacture
- black bear — the common North American bear (Ursus americanus) that lives in forests and feeds mainly on roots and berries
- black belt — A black belt is worn by someone who has reached a very high standard in a sport such as judo or karate.
- black bile — one of the four bodily humours; melancholy
- black code — any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- black heat — heat emitted by an electric element made from low-resistance thick wire that does not glow red
- black hole — Black holes are areas in space, where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. Black holes are thought to be formed by collapsed stars.
- black kite — a bird of prey, Milvus migrans, found in much of Eurasia
- black lead — to colour or rub with black lead
- black pope — the head of the Jesuit order (so called from the power he once possessed and from the black habit worn by the order).
- black sage — a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government