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

  • blue chip — Blue chip stocks and shares are an investment which are considered fairly safe to invest in while also being profitable.
  • blue comb — a disease of birds resembling Bright's disease in humans affecting especially domestic fowl, characterized by fever, sunken eyes, and shriveling of the skin of the wattles, shanks, and comb.
  • blue crab — any of a genus (Callinectes) of crabs, esp. a blue-legged, edible swimming species (C. sapidus) of the Atlantic coast of North America
  • blue duck — a mountain duck, Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos, of New Zealand having a mostly lead-blue plumage
  • blue jack — a small salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, of the North Pacific coasts and also in the Great Lakes, where it was introduced: important as a game and food fish.
  • blue-chip — of, relating to, or constituting a blue chip.
  • bluecurls — a name for the plant Trichostema dichotomum
  • body cell — somatic cell.
  • bold face — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in this dictionary
  • bold-face — type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface.
  • boldfaced — impudent or forward in manner
  • bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
  • bone cell — a cell found in bone in any of its functional states; an osteoblast, osteoclast, or osteocyte.
  • boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
  • botchedly — in a botched or clumsy manner
  • bracelets — a slang name for handcuffs
  • bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
  • bracteole — a secondary bract subtending a flower within an inflorescence
  • branchlet — a small branch
  • bricklike — resembling a brick
  • bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
  • bucketful — A bucketful of something is the amount contained in a bucket.
  • buckle up — When you buckle up in a car or a plane, you fasten your seat belt.
  • buckley's — no chance at all
  • bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
  • bull neck — a short thick neck
  • bullycide — the act or an instance of killing oneself intentionally as a result of bullying
  • burleycue — burlesque (def 3).
  • butcherly — of or resembling a butcher
  • cabaletta — a short aria with a repetitive rhythm
  • caballero — a Spanish gentleman
  • caballine — pertaining to a horse
  • cable box — an electronic device that allows cable television channels to be viewed by a subscriber.
  • cable car — A cable car is a vehicle for taking people up mountains or steep hills. It is pulled by a moving cable.
  • cable tie — a plastic strip with serrations on one end that lock inside an opening on the other end, used to bind things together, especially wires: Wrap all of the cords behind your computer with a cable tie. Officers secured the suspect’s hands with cable ties when they apprehended him.
  • cablecast — the transmission of a TV programme via a cable system
  • cablegram — a message sent by undersea cable
  • cablelaid — noting a rope formed of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction; hawser-laid.
  • cableways — Plural form of cableway.
  • cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
  • calaboose — a prison; jail
  • calabrese — a variety of green sprouting broccoli
  • calembour — a pun
  • calibered — the diameter of something of circular section, especially that of the inside of a tube: a pipe of three-inch caliber.
  • calibrate — If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
  • camelback — a locomotive having its cab situated astride the boiler, halfway along it, rather than at the rear of the boiler
  • cancelbot — a computer program that deletes unwanted mailings to internet usergroups
  • candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
  • canoeable — (of a river, etc) able to be navigated in a canoe
  • cantabile — (to be performed) in a singing style, i.e. flowingly and melodiously
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