7-letter words containing b, c, e
- bestick — to cover with sharp points; to pierce
- betacam — a high-quality professional video system
- bewitch — If someone or something bewitches you, you are so attracted to them that you cannot think about anything else.
- bicorne — a two-cornered cocked hat worn especially in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- bicycle — A bicycle is a vehicle with two wheels which you ride by sitting on it and pushing two pedals with your feet. You steer it by turning a bar that is connected to the front wheel.
- bifteck — beefsteak
- binocle — an opera- or field-glass employing telescopic tubes for both eyes
- biocide — a chemical, such as a pesticide, capable of killing living organisms
- biotech — Biotech means the same as biotechnology.
- birchen — of or relating to birch.
- bircher — a member or supporter of the John Birch Society
- bitchen — marvelous; wonderful.
- blacken — To blacken something means to make it black or very dark in colour. Something that blackens becomes black or very dark in colour.
- blacker — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blackie — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- blanche — a feminine name
- blocked — If something is blocked or blocked up, it is completely closed so that nothing can get through it.
- blocker — a person or thing that acts as a block
- blockie — an owner of a small property, esp a farm
- blucher — a high shoe with laces over the tongue
- bobeche — a cup or ring around the socket of a candlestick, intended to catch dripping wax
- bockedy — (of a structure, piece of furniture, etc) unsteady
- bolices — to do (something) badly; bungle (often followed by up): His interference bollixed up the whole deal.
- boscage — a mass of trees and shrubs; thicket
- botched — bungled or mishandled
- botcher — to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
- bouchee — small pastry case filled with a savoury mixture
- boucher — François (frɑ̃swa). 1703–70, French rococo artist, noted for his delicate ornamental paintings of pastoral scenes and mythological subjects
- bouclée — support for a cue in billiards using the hand
- bouncer — A bouncer is a man who stands at the door of a club, prevents unwanted people from coming in, and makes people leave if they cause trouble.
- bracero — a Mexican labourer working in the USA, esp one admitted into the country to relieve labour shortages during and immediately after World War II
- bracken — Bracken is a large plant with leaves that are divided into many thin sections. It grows on hills and in woods.
- bracket — If you say that someone or something is in a particular bracket, you mean that they come within a particular range, for example a range of incomes, ages, or prices.
- breccia — a rock consisting of angular fragments embedded in a finer matrix, formed by erosion, impact, volcanic activity, etc
- brecham — a straw collar for a draught-horse or ox
- brescia — a city in N Italy, in Lombardy: at its height in the 16th century. Pop: 187 567 (2001)
- bricken — made of bricks
- bricker — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- brickie — A brickie is the same as a bricklayer.
- brickle — brittle
- bricole — a shot in which the cue ball touches a cushion after striking the object ball and before touching another ball
- brioche — Brioche is a kind of sweet bread.
- brocade — Brocade is a thick, expensive material, often made of silk, with a raised pattern on it.
- broches — (in weaving tapestries) a device on which the filling yarn is wound, used as a shuttle in passing through the shed of the loom to deposit the yarn.
- brocked — having different colours; variegated
- brocken — a mountain in central Germany: the highest peak of the Harz Mountains; important in German folklore. Height: 1142 m (3747 ft). The Brocken Bow or Brocken Spectre is an atmospheric phenomenon in which an observer, when the sun is low, may see his enlarged shadow against the clouds, often surrounded by coloured lights
- brocket — any small deer of the genus Mazama, of tropical America, having small unbranched antlers
- brubeck — Dave. 1920–2012, US modern jazz pianist and composer; formed his own quartet in 1951
- brucine — bitter poisonous alkaloid resembling strychnine and obtained from the tree Strychnos nuxvomica: used mainly in the denaturation of alcohol. Formula: C23H26N2O4
- brucite — the mineral form of magnesium hydroxide, translucent and white or pale green in colour