9-letter words containing b, e, c, a
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- iceboater — a person who races iceboats, especially as a hobby or in competition.
- imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
- imbracery — embracery.
- imbricate — overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.
- impacable — (obsolete) Not to be appeased or quieted.
- inbalance — Alternative spelling of imbalance.
- incapable — not capable.
- incitable — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.
- incunable — a book constituting part of a collection of incunabula.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- jack bean — a bushy tropical plant, Canavalia ensiformis, of the legume family, grown especially for forage.
- jacobsite — a rare magnetic mineral, manganese iron oxide, MnFe 2 O 4 , similar to magnetite.
- jet black — deep-black: jet-black hair.
- jet-black — deep-black: jet-black hair.
- jib crane — a crane having an arm guyed at a fixed angle to the head of a rotating mast.
- jubilance — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- judicable — capable of being or liable to be judged or tried.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- keep back — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- 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.
- left back — a defending player on the left side of the field
- locatable — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- 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).
- lucubrate — to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
- 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.
- maccabean — of or relating to the Maccabees or Judas Maccabaeus.
- maccabees — (used with a plural verb) the members of the Hasmonean family of Jewish leaders and rulers comprising the sons of Mattathias and their descendants and reigning in Judea from 167? to 37 b.c., especially Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, who defeated the Syrians under Antiochus IV in 165? and rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem.
- machabees — Maccabees (def 2).
- mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- matchable — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- medicable — responsive to medical treatment; curable.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- metabatic — Relating to metabasis.
- metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- microbeam — (physics) A beam having a small cross section.
- misbecame — Simple past tense and past participle of misbecome.
- mole crab — a burrowing crustacean of the genus Emerita, found on sandy ocean beaches of North America, having a distinctly curved carapace.
- monocable — an aerial ropeway having a single moving cable.
- morecambe — a port and resort in NW England, in NW Lancashire on Morecambe Bay (an inlet of the Irish Sea). Pop (with Heysham): 49 569 (2001)
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- munchable — an item of food that can be munched; a snack