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10-letter words containing c, e

  • black bile — one of the four bodily humours; melancholy
  • black code — any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
  • black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
  • black heat — heat emitted by an electric element made from low-resistance thick wire that does not glow red
  • black hole — Black holes are areas in space, where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. Black holes are thought to be formed by collapsed stars.
  • black kite — a bird of prey, Milvus migrans, found in much of Eurasia
  • black lead — to colour or rub with black lead
  • black pope — the head of the Jesuit order (so called from the power he once possessed and from the black habit worn by the order).
  • black sage — a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
  • black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
  • black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
  • black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
  • blackbeard — nickname of (Edward) Teach
  • blackberry — A blackberry is a small, soft black or dark purple fruit.
  • blackfella — an Aborigine or Black person
  • blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
  • blackheath — a residential district in SE London, mainly in the boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich: a large heath formerly notorious for highwaymen
  • blackplate — cold-rolled sheet steel before pickling or cleaning.
  • 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
  • blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
  • 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.
  • blast cell — any undifferentiated or immature cell.
  • blastocoel — the cavity within a blastula
  • block line — a rope or cable used in a block and tackle
  • block vote — A block vote is a large number of votes that are all cast in the same way by one person on behalf of a group of people.
  • blockflote — a recorder.
  • blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
  • blood cell — any of the cells that circulate in the blood
  • blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
  • blue crane — the great blue heron.
  • blue cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
  • blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
  • blue racer — a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of the US
  • blue-black — Something that is blue-black is bluish black in colour.
  • blue-curls — any of a genus (Trichostema) of plants of the mint family, with downy, narrow leaves and blue flowers
  • bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
  • blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
  • boccherini — Luigi (luˈidʒi). 1743–1805, Italian composer and cellist
  • body check — the fair block of an opponent who has the puck by bumping with the body, shoulder to hip, from the front or side
  • bold-faced — confident or impudent
  • bomb ketch — Nautical. a ketch-rigged vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries, carrying heavy mortars for firing bombs.
  • bomb lance — a harpoon fitted with an explosive head.
  • bomb scare — an alarm arising from the fear that a bomb may have been left in a place
  • bon marche — a bargain.
  • bone black — a fine charcoal made by burning animal bones in closed containers: used as a pigment, in refining sugar, etc.
  • bone china — Bone china is a kind of thin china that contains powdered bone.
  • boniface iSaint, died a.d. 422, pope 418–422.
  • boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
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