9-letter words containing c, i, b, e
- bechstein — Karl. 1826–1900, German piano maker; founder (1853) of the Bechstein company of piano manufacturers in Berlin
- beckoning — a nod, gesture, etc., that signals, directs, summons, indicates agreement, or the like.
- becripple — to make or cause to become crippled.
- bed chair — an adjustable frame for assisting invalids to sit up in bed.
- bedecking — Present participle of bedeck.
- belection — bolection.
- belgicism — a word or expression used by Belgians when speaking French or Dutch
- bellicose — You use bellicose to refer to aggressive actions or behaviour that are likely to start an argument or a fight.
- berdichev — a city in W central Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
- betatopic — (of atoms) differing in proton number by one, theoretically as a result of emission of a beta particle
- bewitched — to affect by witchcraft or magic; cast a spell over.
- bewitcher — a person who enchants or bewitches
- bezoardic — relating to bezoar
- bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
- bicaudate — having two tails or taillike appendages.
- bice blue — a medium or deep sky-blue color, duller than aquamarine or azure.
- bicentric — having two centres
- bickering — to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
- biconcave — (of a lens) having concave faces on both sides; concavo-concave
- bid price — The bid price of a particular stock or share is the price that investors are willing to pay for it.
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- bigeneric — (of a hybrid plant) derived from parents of two different genera
- bijection — a mathematical function or mapping that is both an injection and a surjection and therefore has an inverse
- bijective — (of a function, relation, etc) associating two sets in such a way that every member of each set is uniquely paired with a member of the other
- bike rack — stand for parking cycles
- bile acid — any of various steroid acids, produced in the liver and stored with bile, that emulsify fats during digestion.
- bile duct — the duct that conveys bile from the liver and the gall bladder to the duodenum
- bilection — bolection
- billerica — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- bioactive — (of a substance) having or producing an effect on living tissue
- biocenose — a situation in which organisms live together in mutual dependence
- biochemic — relating to the chemistry of living organisms
- 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.
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- 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.
- bivalence — the semantic principle that there are exactly two truth values, so that every meaningful statement is either true or false
- bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
- black ice — Black ice is a thin, transparent layer of ice on a road or path that is very difficult to see.
- 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.