9-letter words containing b, c, l
- rice bowl — deep dish for rice
- roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- rocambole — a European plant, Allium scorodoprasum, of the amaryllis family, used like garlic.
- rock bolt — a steel or fiberglass bolt inserted and anchored in a hole drilled in rock to prevent caving of the roof of a tunnel or subterranean chamber.
- roll back — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
- roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
- rubicelle — a variety of the mineral spinel that is orange or yellow in colour
- scablands — rough, barren, volcanic topography with thin soils and little vegetation.
- scannable — to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page.
- schoolbag — a bag used for carrying books, school supplies, etc.
- schoolboy — a boy attending school.
- schulberg — Budd [buhd] /bʌd/ (Show IPA), 1914–2009, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and scenarist.
- scoopable — able to be scooped
- scrabbled — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrambler — a person or thing that scrambles.
- scrapable — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- screwable — able to be screwed
- screwball — Slang. an eccentric or whimsically eccentric person; a nut.
- scribable — able to be written or written on
- scribbler — a machine for scribbling wool fibers.
- scrubbily — in a scrubby or messy manner
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- scuzzball — Also called scuzzball [skuhz-bawl] /ˈskʌzˌbɔl/ (Show IPA), scuzzbucket [skuhz-buhk-it] /ˈskʌzˌbʌk ɪt/ (Show IPA). a dirty, grimy, sordid, or repulsive person or thing.
- scybalous — of or relating to scybalum
- securable — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- seducible — to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
- sell-back — an act or instance of selling something previously purchased.
- semblance — outward aspect or appearance.
- shambolic — very disorganized; messy or confused: I’ve had a shambolic year, the worst ever.
- shellback — an old sailor.
- shoeblack — bootblack.
- sibilance — hissing.
- slab cake — a large square or rectangular-shaped cake
- slat back — a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.
- slice bar — a long-handled instrument with a blade at the end, for clearing away or breaking up clinkers, coal, etc., in a furnace.
- slingback — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- stackable — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
- stickable — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickball — a form of baseball played in the streets, on playgrounds, etc., in which a rubber ball and a broomstick or the like are used in place of a baseball and bat.
- subapical — located below the apex.
- subcaudal — below a tail
- subcellar — a cellar below the main cellar.
- subclause — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- subclimax — the development of an ecological community to a stage short of the expected climax because of some factor, as repeated fires in a forest, that arrests the normal succession.
- subcolony — a colony established by an existing colony
- subconsul — an assistant to a consul
- subcostal — below the rib
- subocular — below or under the eye
- subsacral — below the sacrum or bone at the back of the pelvis