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