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

  • benchmark — A benchmark is something whose quality or quantity is known and which can therefore be used as a standard with which other things can be compared.
  • benchrest — a tablelike support for a target rifle used in target practice.
  • bicentric — having two centres
  • bickering — to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
  • biconcave — (of a lens) having concave faces on both sides; concavo-concave
  • bigeneric — (of a hybrid plant) derived from parents of two different genera
  • bijection — a mathematical function or mapping that is both an injection and a surjection and therefore has an inverse
  • bilection — bolection
  • binuclear — having two nuclei
  • biocenose — a situation in which organisms live together in mutual dependence
  • bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
  • 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.
  • blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
  • blackener — someone who blackens
  • blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
  • 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
  • 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
  • boat neck — a high slitlike neckline of a garment that extends onto the shoulders
  • 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
  • bontebuck — bontebok.
  • bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
  • braincase — the part of the cranium that protects the brain
  • branchery — a group or system of branches
  • branchiae — the gills of an aquatic animal
  • branchlet — a small branch
  • breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
  • breakneck — If you say that something happens or travels at breakneck speed, you mean that it happens or travels very fast.
  • brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
  • breeching — the strap of a harness that passes behind a horse's haunches
  • buccaneer — A buccaneer was a pirate, especially one who attacked and stole from Spanish ships in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • bucentaur — the state barge of Venice from which the doge and other officials dropped a ring into the sea on Ascension Day to symbolize the ceremonial marriage of the state with the Adriatic
  • buck bean — a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, of the gentian family, having narrow clusters of white or pink flowers.
  • bull neck — a short thick neck
  • butchness — the state of being butch
  • by chance — Something that happens by chance was not planned by anyone.
  • by inches — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
  • caballine — pertaining to a horse
  • cabernets — Plural form of cabernet.
  • cabinetry — cabinets collectively
  • cabinmate — a person with whom one shares a cabin
  • cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
  • canberran — a native or inhabitant of Canberra
  • 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
  • canebrake — a thicket of canes
  • canebreak — Alternative spelling of canebrake.
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