9-letter words containing b, i, c, o, l
- columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
- columbium — niobium
- comboloio — A Muslim rosary consisting of ninety-nine beads.
- comptible — (obsolete) accountable; responsible.
- connubial — of or relating to marriage; conjugal
- coolibahs — Plural form of coolibah.
- corbeille — corbeil.
- corbeling — the fashioning of corbels
- corbicula — pollen basket.
- coulibiac — a Russian dish of rich pastry with a filling of salmon or other fish and mushrooms, onions, egg, buckwheat, dill, etc.
- coulombic — relating to the discoveries of Charles Augustin de Coulomb
- courbaril — a tropical American leguminous tree, Hymenaea courbaril. Its wood is a useful timber and its gum is a source of copal
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- crossbill — any of various widely distributed finches of the genus Loxia, such as L. curvirostra, that occur in coniferous woods and have a bill with crossed mandible tips for feeding on conifer seeds
- crow-bill — a type of forceps used to extract bullets, etc, from wounds
- discoboli — Plural form of discobolus.
- eco-bling — equipment that is energy-efficient but less effective than simpler technology
- fluoboric — containing the univalent group BF 4 − .
- gin block — a block having a large sheave in an open metal frame, used especially to support a cargo whip.
- go public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- goldbrick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- ice block — a flavoured frozen water ice: in Australia and New Zealand, sometimes on a stick
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- katabolic — Alternative form of catabolic.
- lockerbie — a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a passenger jet (Pan Am flight 103) was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town. Pop: 4009 (2001)
- log cabin — house made of trimmed tree trunks
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
- lyophobic — noting a colloid the particles of which have little or no affinity for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- microbial — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- microblog — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
- nonpublic — Not open or available to the public.
- noticable — Misspelling of noticeable.
- obconical — conical, with the attachment at the pointed end.
- orbicular — like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.
- parabolic — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
- plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
- polybasic — (of an acid) having two or more atoms of replaceable hydrogen.
- rice bowl — deep dish for rice
- roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
- shambolic — very disorganized; messy or confused: I’ve had a shambolic year, the worst ever.
- subsocial — without a definite social structure.
- symbolics — the branch of theology dealing with the study of the history and meaning of church creeds and confessions.
- tubicolar — living in a self-constructed tube