10-letter words containing b, e, n, c
- black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
- blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- blanc fixe — barium sulfate
- blancmange — Blancmange is a cold dessert that is made from milk, sugar, cornflour or corn starch, and flavouring, and looks rather like jelly.
- block line — a rope or cable used in a block and tackle
- blue crane — the great blue heron.
- boccherini — Luigi (luˈidʒi). 1743–1805, Italian composer and cellist
- bomb lance — a harpoon fitted with an explosive head.
- bon marche — a bargain.
- bone black — a fine charcoal made by burning animal bones in closed containers: used as a pigment, in refining sugar, etc.
- bone china — Bone china is a kind of thin china that contains powdered bone.
- boniface i — Saint, died a.d. 422, pope 418–422.
- boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
- boondocker — combat boot.
- bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
- bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
- bouncedown — an occasion of restarting play by the umpire bouncing the ball
- box wrench — a wrench with a completely enclosed head, used to hold and turn nuts and bolts
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
- branchiate — having gills.
- brass neck — effrontery; nerve
- breakdance — to perform break dancing.
- brilliance — great brightness; radiance
- broken ice — sea ice that covers from 50 to 80 percent of the surface of water in any particular area.
- bronchiole — any of the smallest bronchial tubes, usually ending in alveoli
- brown rice — unpolished rice, in which the grains retain the outer yellowish-brown layer (bran)
- bubonocele — an incomplete hernia in the groin; partial inguinal hernia
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
- bunchberry — a dwarf variety of dogwood native to North America, Cornus canadensis, having red berries
- cabin crew — The cabin crew on an aircraft are the people whose job is to look after the passengers.
- cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
- cabineteer — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of a governmental cabinet.
- cable bend — a knot or clinch for attaching a cable to an anchor or mooring post.
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
- cacao bean — a seed of the cacao tree.
- calcinable — able to be calcined
- cancelable — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- cancelbots — Plural form of cancelbot.
- candelabra — A candelabra is an ornamental holder for two or more candles.
- candlebeam — a medieval chandelier formed of crossed timbers.
- canebrakes — Plural form of canebrake.
- cantabiles — Plural form of cantabile.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- cape blanc — a headland in N Tunisia: the northernmost point of Africa
- carabineer — a soldier armed with a carbine