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9-letter words containing c, e, i, t

  • bile duct — the duct that conveys bile from the liver and the gall bladder to the duodenum
  • bilection — bolection
  • bioactive — (of a substance) having or producing an effect on living tissue
  • bioethics — the study of ethical problems arising from biological research and its applications in such fields as organ transplantation, genetic engineering, or artificial insemination
  • biometric — Biometric tests and devices use biological information about a person to create a detailed record of their personal characteristics.
  • bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
  • bisectrix — the bisector of the angle between the optic axes of a crystal
  • bisulcate — marked by two grooves
  • bit decay — bit rot
  • bit slice — (of central processing units) able to be built up in sections to form complete central processing units with various word lengths
  • bitchface — Also called resting bitchface, bitchy resting face, chronic bitchface. (especially of a woman) a facial expression that does not consciously express a particular emotion but that others perceive as scowling, threatening, etc.: I can’t help that I have resting bitchface. Her face naturally goes into a bitchface, but I promise she’s super friendly. I’m not angry, I just have chronic bitch face. Abbreviation: RBF. (especially of a woman) a deliberate facial expression of anger or disgust, often employed to appear unapproachable: I put on my bitchface when I ride the train so creepy guys don’t talk to me. It’s important to perfect your bitchface.
  • bitchfest — a malicious and spiteful discussion of people, events, etc
  • bite back — If you bite back a feeling or something that you were going to say, you stop yourself from expressing it.
  • black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
  • black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
  • bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
  • brachiate — having widely divergent paired branches
  • brecciate — to form into breccia
  • brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
  • bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
  • bucuresti — Bucharest
  • busticate — to break
  • c-section — A C-section is the same as a Caesarean.
  • cabinetry — cabinets collectively
  • cabinmate — a person with whom one shares a cabin
  • cable tie — a plastic strip with serrations on one end that lock inside an opening on the other end, used to bind things together, especially wires: Wrap all of the cords behind your computer with a cable tie. Officers secured the suspect’s hands with cable ties when they apprehended him.
  • cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
  • cache hit — (storage)   A request to read from memory which can satisfied from the cache without using the main memory. Opposite: cache miss.
  • cachectic — general ill health with emaciation, usually occurring in association with cancer or a chronic infectious disease.
  • cachectin — Biochemistry, Immunology. a protein that is released by activated macrophages as an immune system defense and, when the defense is overwhelmed, is a cause of cachexia or toxic shock: in humans, identical with tumor necrosis factor.
  • cacoepist — One who engages in cacoepy, especially frequently.
  • cadential — relating to or belonging to a cadence or a cadenza
  • cadetship — a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
  • cafeteria — A cafeteria is a restaurant where you choose your food from a counter and take it to your table after paying for it. Cafeterias are usually found in public buildings such as hospitals and stores.
  • cafetiere — A cafetière is a type of coffee pot that has a disk with small holes in it attached to the lid. You push the lid down to separate the liquid from the ground coffee when it is ready to drink.
  • caithness — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland, now part of Highland
  • calamites — Plural form of calamite.
  • calibrate — If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
  • caliphate — the office, jurisdiction, or reign of a caliph
  • calixtine — a member of a body of Hussites in the 15th century holding that the chalice as well as the bread should be received by the laity in the Eucharist.
  • call time — to suspend play temporarily
  • calmative — (of a remedy or agent) sedative
  • calvities — baldness
  • camp site — a place used or suitable for camping.
  • campsites — Plural form of campsite.
  • canaanite — a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied the land of Canaan before the Israelite conquest
  • candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
  • candlelit — A candlelit room or table is lit by the light of candles.
  • canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
  • canistels — Plural form of canistel.
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