8-letter words containing c, i, n
- baculine — relating to flogging with a rod
- banausic — merely mechanical; materialistic; utilitarian
- barbican — a walled outwork or tower to protect a gate or drawbridge of a fortification
- baryonic — of or relating to a baryon
- batching — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
- beaching — an expanse of sand or pebbles along a shore.
- becoming — A piece of clothing, a colour, or a hairstyle that is becoming makes the person who is wearing it look attractive.
- belching — to eject gas spasmodically and noisily from the stomach through the mouth; eruct.
- benching — a long seat for several persons: a bench in the park.
- benedick — a newly married man
- benedict — Saint. ?480–?547 ad, Italian monk: founded the Benedictine order at Monte Cassino in Italy in about 540 ad. His Regula Monachorum became the basis of the rule of all Western Christian monastic orders. Feast day: July 11 or March 14
- benefice — an endowed Church office yielding an income to its holder; a Church living
- bentinck — Lord William Cavendish. 1774–1839, British statesman, governor general of Bengal (1828–35)
- benzylic — relating to benzyl
- berenice — a feminine name
- bernicia — a 6th- and 7th- century Anglian kingdom, merged with Deira to form the kingdom of Northumbria, in present-day NE England and SE Scotland.
- bernicle — barnacle goose: a N European goose that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings
- biconvex — (of a lens) having convex faces on both sides; convexo-convex
- billycan — Also called billy club. a police officer's club or baton.
- bin card — an index card in or affixed to a bin identifying its contents
- binchois — Gilles [Dutch khil-uh s;; French zheel] /Dutch ˈxɪl əs;; French ʒil/ (Show IPA), or Egidius [Dutch ey-khee-dee-oo s] /Dutch eɪˈxi diˌʊs/ (Show IPA), c1400–60, Flemish composer.
- binnacle — a housing for a ship's compass
- bioclean — free from harmful bacteria
- biogenic — produced or originating from a living organism
- birching — the action of beating someone, esp a naughty schoolchild, with a birch
- bitchin' — wonderful or excellent
- bitching — a female dog: The bitch won first place in the sporting dogs category.
- blackfin — a type of tuna, Thunnus atlanticus
- blacking — any preparation, esp one containing lampblack, for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc
- blaxican — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person of mixed-race heritage who self-identifies racially and culturally as both African American and Mexican-American.
- blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- block in — If you are blocked in, someone has parked their car in such a way that you cannot drive yours away.
- blocking — the interruption of anode current in a valve because of the application of a high negative voltage to the grid
- boccioni — Umberto (umˈberto). 1882–1916, Italian painter and sculptor: principal theorist of the futurist movement
- boniface — Saint, original name Wynfrith. ?680–?755 ad, Anglo-Saxon missionary: archbishop of Mainz (746–755). Feast day: June 5
- bornitic — of or relating to bornite
- botanica — a shop that sells herbs, charms, and other items associated with alternative medicine or magic
- botching — to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
- bouncing — If you say that someone is bouncing with health, you mean that they are very healthy. You can also refer to a bouncing baby.
- braconid — any member of the Braconidae, a family of parasitoid wasps
- brainiac — a highly intelligent person
- branchia — a gill in aquatic animals
- brancusi — Constantin (konstanˈtin). 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms
- bricking — the falsification of evidence in order to bring a criminal charge
- brisance — the shattering effect or power of an explosion or explosive
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- bucatini — pasta in the shape of long tubes
- buckling — Buckling happens when a force presses on a slender structure and makes it collapse.
- buckskin — Buckskin is soft, strong leather made from the skin of a deer or a goat.
- bucovina — Bukovina