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9-letter words containing b, r, i, c

  • bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
  • bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
  • brunching — a meal that serves as both breakfast and lunch.
  • brunswick — a former duchy (1635–1918) and state (1918–46) of central Germany, now part of the state of Lower Saxony; formerly (1949–90) part of West Germany
  • brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
  • bucranium — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
  • bucuresti — Bucharest
  • cabdriver — a taxi driver
  • cabinetry — cabinets collectively
  • cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
  • cage bird — a pet bird kept in a cage
  • cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
  • calabrian — of or relating to Calabria or its inhabitants
  • 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.
  • cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
  • cambiform — resembling a cambium
  • cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
  • cantabria — a province and autonomous community in N Spain
  • carabiner — in mountain climbing, an oval metal ring with a snap link used to fasten a rope to the piton
  • carbamide — urea.
  • carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
  • carbanion — a negatively charged organic ion in which most of the negative charge is localized on a carbon atom
  • carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
  • carbineer — (formerly) a soldier equipped with a carbine
  • carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
  • carbolize — to treat or sterilize with phenol
  • carbonari — a secret political society with liberal republican aims, originating in S Italy about 1811 and particularly engaged in the struggle for Italian unification
  • carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
  • carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
  • carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
  • carbonize — to turn or be turned into carbon as a result of heating, fossilization, chemical treatment, etc
  • carburize — to increase the carbon content of (the surface of a low-carbon steel) so that the surface can be hardened by heat treatment
  • caribbean — The Caribbean is the sea which is between the West Indies, Central America and the north coast of South America.
  • carriable — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
  • cat brier — greenbrier, esp. the vine (Smilax glauca)
  • cedarbird — a type of waxwing native to North America
  • cediranib — A potent inhibitor of VEGF receptor tyrosine kinases, under development as a possible anticancer drug.
  • celebrity — A celebrity is someone who is famous, especially in areas of entertainment such as films, music, writing, or sport.
  • cerebroid — resembling the cerebrum or the brain.
  • chair bed — a chair that can be opened out to form a bed.
  • chairback — the part of a chair that supports the sitter's back
  • charbroil — to grill (meat) over charcoal
  • charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
  • chemisorb — to take up (a substance) by chemisorption
  • cherubini — (Maria) Luigi (Carlo Zenobio Salvatore) (luˈiːdʒi). 1760–1842, Italian composer, noted particularly for his church music and his operas.
  • chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
  • choir-boy — a boy who sings in a choir, especially a church choir.
  • choirboys — Plural form of choirboy.
  • choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
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