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9-letter words containing b, c, l

  • jet black — deep-black: jet-black hair.
  • jet-black — deep-black: jet-black hair.
  • jubilance — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
  • jubilancy — (rare) Jubilation.
  • judicable — capable of being or liable to be judged or tried.
  • katabolic — Alternative form of catabolic.
  • kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
  • knob lock — a lock having a spring bolt moved by a knob or knobs, and a dead bolt moved by a key.
  • la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
  • laid back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
  • laid-back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
  • lamb chop — cutlets of young sheep's meat
  • lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
  • lampblack — a fine black pigment consisting of almost pure carbon collected as soot from the smoke of burning oil, gas, etc.
  • land crab — any of several crabs, especially of the family Gecarcinidae, that live chiefly upon land, returning to the sea to breed.
  • leachable — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
  • leaseback — the disposal of a building, land, or other property to a buyer under special arrangements for simultaneously leasing it on a long-term basis to the original seller, usually with an option to renew the lease.
  • lebkuchen — a hard, chewy or brittle Christmas cookie, usually flavored with honey and spices and containing nuts and citron.
  • left back — a defending player on the left side of the field
  • lehmbruck — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1881–1919, German sculptor.
  • lobectomy — excision of a lobe of an organ or gland.
  • lobscouse — a stew of meat, potatoes, onions, ship biscuit, etc.
  • local bus — (hardware)   A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
  • locatable — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
  • lockboxes — Plural form of lockbox.
  • lockerbie — a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a passenger jet (Pan Am flight 103) was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town. Pop: 4009 (2001)
  • log cabin — house made of trimmed tree trunks
  • lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
  • look back — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
  • lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • lubricity — oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
  • lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
  • lucky bag — a bag of mixed sweets, intended for children; the bag is transparent, so that you do not know exactly what it contains
  • lucubrate — to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
  • lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
  • lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
  • lunch box — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
  • lynch mob — A lynch mob is an angry crowd of people who want to kill someone without a trial, because they believe that person has committed a crime.
  • lynchburg — a city in central Virginia.
  • lyophobic — noting a colloid the particles of which have little or no affinity for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
  • lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
  • macabrely — In a macabre manner.
  • matchable — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
  • medicable — responsive to medical treatment; curable.
  • metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • microbial — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
  • microblog — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
  • mole crab — a burrowing crustacean of the genus Emerita, found on sandy ocean beaches of North America, having a distinctly curved carapace.
  • monoblock — Alternative spelling of monobloc.
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