10-letter words containing c, a, n
- barenecked — Having the neck bare.
- barleycorn — a grain of barley, or barley itself
- barn dance — A barn dance is a social event people go to for country dancing.
- baroclinic — of, relating to, or having the property of baroclinity.
- barracking — Present participle of barrack.
- barycenter — (physics) The center of a mass; often specifically, the point at which the gravitational forces exerted by two objects are equal.
- barycentre — a centre of mass, esp of the earth-moon system or the solar system
- batrachian — any amphibian, esp a frog or toad
- beachfront — A beachfront house, café, shop, or hotel is situated on or by a beach.
- bean caper — a shrub, Zygophyllum fabago, of E Mediterranean regions, whose flower buds are eaten as a substitute for capers: family Zygophyllaceae
- beautician — A beautician is a person whose job is giving people beauty treatments such as doing their nails, treating their skin, and putting on their make-up.
- bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
- benacerraf — Baruj. 1920–2011, Venezuelan-born US immunologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1980) for his work on histocompatibility antigens
- bench mark — a surveyor's mark made on a permanent landmark of known position and altitude: it is used as a reference point in determining other altitudes
- bench seat — a seat for more than one person
- bench-made — (of articles made of leather, wood, etc.) individually produced and finished, as on a carpenter's bench; custom-made.
- benefactor — A benefactor is a person who helps a person or organization by giving them money.
- beneficial — Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives.
- benignancy — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- benzocaine — a white crystalline ester used as a local anaesthetic; ethyl para-aminobenzoate. Formula: C9H11NO2
- berecyntia — Cybele.
- betacyanin — any one of a group of red nitrogenous pigments found in certain plants, such as beetroot
- betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bienseance — good breeding; decorum
- big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
- bilocation — the existence of something in two places at the same time
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- biodynamic — the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms (opposed to biostatics).
- bionically — utilizing electronic devices and mechanical parts to assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous, or intricate tasks, as by supplementing or duplicating parts of the body: The scientist used a bionic arm to examine the radioactive material.
- bioorganic — pertaining to the composition and biological activity of carbon-based compounds, especially those of laboratory rather than biogenic origin (contrasted with bioinorganic).
- black bean — an Australian leguminous tree, Castanospermum australe, having thin smooth bark and yellow or reddish flowers: used in furniture manufacture
- black gang — the crew working in a stokehold of a ship.
- black gnat — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- black hand — a group of Sicilian blackmailers and terrorists formed in the 1870s and operating in the US in the early 20th century
- black knot — a fungal disease of plums and cherries caused by Dibotryon morbosum, characterized by rough black knotlike swellings on the twigs and branches
- black land — a black, clayey soil.
- black lung — pneumoconiosis of coal miners, caused by coal dust; anthracosis.
- black monk — a Benedictine monk
- black ring — a disease of grasses, characterized by black rings surrounding the stems and blighted seeds, caused by a fungus, Balansia strangulans.
- black swan — a phenomenon that occurs even though it had been thought to be impossible
- black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
- blacklands — an area of fertile soil in Texas
- 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
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- 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.