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9-letter words containing b, e, c, l

  • bell arch — a round arch resting on prominent corbels.
  • bellicose — You use bellicose to refer to aggressive actions or behaviour that are likely to start an argument or a fight.
  • bellyache — Bellyache is a pain inside your abdomen, especially in your stomach.
  • belomancy — the art of divination using arrows
  • benchland — a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains
  • benchless — without a bench or benches
  • bespeckle — to mark with speckles
  • beta cell — B cell (def 2).
  • bev curls — long locks of hair, considered to be typical of a certain kind of unfashionable male
  • bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
  • bice blue — a medium or deep sky-blue color, duller than aquamarine or azure.
  • bifocaled — wearing bifocals
  • bile acid — any of various steroid acids, produced in the liver and stored with bile, that emulsify fats during digestion.
  • bile duct — the duct that conveys bile from the liver and the gall bladder to the duodenum
  • bilection — bolection
  • billerica — a city in NE Massachusetts.
  • binuclear — having two nuclei
  • bisulcate — marked by two grooves
  • bit slice — (of central processing units) able to be built up in sections to form complete central processing units with various word lengths
  • bivalence — the semantic principle that there are exactly two truth values, so that every meaningful statement is either true or false
  • bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
  • black eye — If someone has a black eye, they have a dark-coloured bruise around their eye.
  • black ice — Black ice is a thin, transparent layer of ice on a road or path that is very difficult to see.
  • black sea — an inland sea between SE Europe and Asia: connected to the Aegean Sea by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, and to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait. Area: about 415 000 sq km (160 000 sq miles)
  • black tea — tea withered and fermented before being dried by heating
  • black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
  • black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
  • blackacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from whiteacre).
  • blackbead — cat's-claw.
  • blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
  • blackener — someone who blackens
  • blackface — a performer made up to imitate a Black person
  • blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
  • blackgame — a large grouse found in northern Europe and Asia
  • blackhead — Blackheads are small, dark spots on someone's skin caused by blocked pores.
  • blacklead — to colour or rub with black lead
  • blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
  • blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
  • blackweed — the common ragweed.
  • blackwell — Elizabeth1821-1910; 1st woman physician in the U.S., born in England
  • blanchett — Cate (keɪt), full name Catherine Elise Blanchett. born 1969, Australian actress; her films include Elizabeth (1998), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03), Notes on a Scandal (2006), and Blue Jasmine (2013) for which she won an Academy Award
  • bleachers — The bleachers are a part of an outdoor sports stadium, or the seats in that area, which are usually uncovered and are the least expensive place where people can sit.
  • bleachery — a place where bleaching is carried out
  • bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
  • bleomycin — a glycopeptide antibiotic drug used in the treatment of cancer and Hodgkin's Disease
  • bloc-vote — to vote in or as a bloc: Party conservatives can be counted on to bloc-vote.
  • blockable — able to be blocked or prevented
  • blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
  • blockhead — a stupid person
  • blockhole — a mark or marks on a cricket pitch around the area where the batsman stands, caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the ground
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