10-letter words containing b, c, e
- bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
- bouncedown — an occasion of restarting play by the umpire bouncing the ball
- box camera — a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder
- box clever — to behave in a careful and cunning way
- box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
- box office — The box office in a theatre, cinema, or concert hall is the place where the tickets are sold.
- box wrench — a wrench with a completely enclosed head, used to hold and turn nuts and bolts
- box-office — of or relating to the box office or to the business and commercial aspects of the theater: a box-office window; box-office receipts; a box-office attraction.
- brace jack — a triangular piece of wood used for propping up scenery from behind.
- brace root — prop root.
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
- brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
- branchiate — having gills.
- brass neck — effrontery; nerve
- breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- break camp — to pack up equipment and leave a camp
- breakdance — to perform break dancing.
- brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
- breechless — having no breeches or trousers; bare-bottomed
- brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
- brickfield — an area of ground where bricks are made
- bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
- brickmaker — a person who makes bricks
- brilliance — great brightness; radiance
- brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
- broadfaced — having a broad, wide face.
- broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
- broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
- brocatelle — a heavy brocade with the design in deep relief, used chiefly in upholstery
- brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
- brockville — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- broken ice — sea ice that covers from 50 to 80 percent of the surface of water in any particular area.
- bronchiole — any of the smallest bronchial tubes, usually ending in alveoli
- brown rice — unpolished rice, in which the grains retain the outer yellowish-brown layer (bran)
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
- bubonocele — an incomplete hernia in the groin; partial inguinal hernia
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buck fever — nervous excitement felt by inexperienced hunters at the approach of game
- buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
- buck teeth — upper front teeth which stick out
- bucket out — to empty out with or as if with a bucket
- buckjumper — an untamed horse
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served