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7-letter words containing b, c, l

  • flyback — the return to its starting point of the electron beam in a cathode ray tube, as after the completion of a line in a television picture or of a trace in an oscilloscope.
  • h-block — a name for the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, closed in 2000
  • iceball — a ball of ice or snow
  • jobclub — a group of unemployed people organized through a Jobcentre, which meets every day and is given advice on job seeking to increase its members' chances of finding employment
  • labiche — Eugène Marin [œ-zhen ma-ran] /œˈʒɛn maˈrɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1815–88, French dramatist.
  • laibach — German name of Ljubljana.
  • layback — Figure Skating. a spin, usually performed by a woman, in which the upper body is arched backward and the free leg lifted and turned out from the hip.
  • leblanc — Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). ?1742–1806, French chemist, who invented a process for the manufacture of soda from common salt
  • liberec — a city in the NW Czech Republic.
  • limbeck — (obsolete) An alembic.
  • lo-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
  • lockbox — a strongbox.
  • lubbockSir John, 1st Baron Avebury, 1834–1913, English author, natural scientist, and statesman.
  • niblick — a club with an iron head, the face of which has the greatest slope of all the irons, for hitting the ball with maximum loft.
  • oobleck — A mixture of cornstarch and water with unusual physical properties.
  • pacable — easily appeased
  • placebo — Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine. a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.
  • plumbic — containing lead, especially in the tetravalent state.
  • publico — (especially in Puerto Rico) a taxi that picks up and discharges passengers along a fixed route.
  • reblock — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
  • reclimb — to climb (a hill, mountain, etc) again
  • scabble — to shape or dress (stone) roughly.
  • scamble — a long bench used in a farm kitchen
  • scribal — a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
  • scumble — to soften (the color or tone of a painted area) by overlaying parts with opaque or semiopaque color applied thinly and lightly with an almost dry brush.
  • subcell — a cell within a larger cell
  • subclan — a clan within a larger clan
  • subcool — to cool (liquid) to a temperature lower than the temperature it was when it condensed into steam
  • subcult — a cult within a larger cult
  • unblock — to remove a block or obstruction from: to unblock a channel; to unblock a person's credit.
  • upclimb — an ascension; a climbing upwards
  • v block — a block having a precise V -shaped groove for checking the roundness or concentricity of a machine part or the like, or for holding cylindrical pieces of work.
  • vocable — a word; term; name.
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