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9-letter words containing b, o, c

  • knobstick — A stick with a rounded knob at the end.
  • knockback — A blow that causes the recipient to fall or move backwards, a knock back; a recoil.
  • lamb chop — cutlets of young sheep's meat
  • lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
  • lobectomy — excision of a lobe of an organ or gland.
  • lobscouse — a stew of meat, potatoes, onions, ship biscuit, etc.
  • local bus — (hardware)   A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
  • locatable — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
  • lockboxes — Plural form of lockbox.
  • 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.
  • look back — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
  • lunch box — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
  • lynch mob — A lynch mob is an angry crowd of people who want to kill someone without a trial, because they believe that person has committed a crime.
  • lyophobic — noting a colloid the particles of which have little or no affinity for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
  • macrobian — Having an exceptionally long life span.
  • maracaibo — a seaport in NW Venezuela.
  • matchbook — a small cardboard folder into which several rows of paper matches are stapled or glued.
  • metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • microbars — Plural form of microbar.
  • microbeam — (physics) A beam having a small cross section.
  • microbial — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
  • microbian — (biology) Of, relating to, or caused by, microbes; microbial.
  • 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.
  • microbody — (cytology): A cellular organelle bound by a single membrane and containing enzymes.
  • microbots — Plural form of microbot.
  • microbrew — beer brewed in a microbrewery.
  • microtube — A microscopic tube, especially one used in the construction of specialized lasers.
  • misbecome — to be unsuitable, unbecoming, or unfit for.
  • mobocracy — political control by a mob.
  • moby dick — a novel (1851) by Herman Melville.
  • mole crab — a burrowing crustacean of the genus Emerita, found on sandy ocean beaches of North America, having a distinctly curved carapace.
  • monobasic — Chemistry. (of an acid) containing one replaceable hydrogen atom.
  • monoblock — Alternative spelling of monobloc.
  • monocable — an aerial ropeway having a single moving cable.
  • morecambe — a port and resort in NW England, in NW Lancashire on Morecambe Bay (an inlet of the Irish Sea). Pop (with Heysham): 49 569 (2001)
  • mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
  • mossbacks — Plural form of mossback.
  • mozarabic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Mozarabs: Mozarabic culture.
  • music box — a box or case containing an apparatus for producing music mechanically, as by means of a comblike steel plate with tuned teeth sounded by small pegs or pins in the surface of a revolving cylinder or disk.
  • mycobiont — the fungal component of a lichen.
  • neophobic — Afflicted by neophobia; fearing or disliking what is new.
  • no object — not a hindrance or obstacle
  • non-black — a person who is not of a Black race
  • nonblacks — Plural form of nonblack.
  • noncombat — not including, entailing, or requiring combat: noncombat duty.
  • nonpublic — Not open or available to the public.
  • notchback — a style of back for an automobile in which there is a sharp vertical drop-off from the roof line to the trunk.
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