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9-letter words containing c, l, e

  • 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.
  • blackacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from whiteacre).
  • blackbead — cat's-claw.
  • blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
  • blackener — someone who blackens
  • blackface — a performer made up to imitate a Black person
  • blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
  • blackgame — a large grouse found in northern Europe and Asia
  • blackhead — Blackheads are small, dark spots on someone's skin caused by blocked pores.
  • blacklead — to colour or rub with black lead
  • blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
  • blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
  • blackweed — the common ragweed.
  • blackwell — Elizabeth1821-1910; 1st woman physician in the U.S., born in England
  • blanchett — Cate (keɪt), full name Catherine Elise Blanchett. born 1969, Australian actress; her films include Elizabeth (1998), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03), Notes on a Scandal (2006), and Blue Jasmine (2013) for which she won an Academy Award
  • bleachers — The bleachers are a part of an outdoor sports stadium, or the seats in that area, which are usually uncovered and are the least expensive place where people can sit.
  • bleachery — a place where bleaching is carried out
  • bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
  • bleomycin — a glycopeptide antibiotic drug used in the treatment of cancer and Hodgkin's Disease
  • bloc-vote — to vote in or as a bloc: Party conservatives can be counted on to bloc-vote.
  • blockable — able to be blocked or prevented
  • blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
  • blockhead — a stupid person
  • blockhole — a mark or marks on a cricket pitch around the area where the batsman stands, caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the ground
  • blue chip — Blue chip stocks and shares are an investment which are considered fairly safe to invest in while also being profitable.
  • blue comb — a disease of birds resembling Bright's disease in humans affecting especially domestic fowl, characterized by fever, sunken eyes, and shriveling of the skin of the wattles, shanks, and comb.
  • blue crab — any of a genus (Callinectes) of crabs, esp. a blue-legged, edible swimming species (C. sapidus) of the Atlantic coast of North America
  • blue duck — a mountain duck, Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos, of New Zealand having a mostly lead-blue plumage
  • blue jack — a small salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, of the North Pacific coasts and also in the Great Lakes, where it was introduced: important as a game and food fish.
  • blue-chip — of, relating to, or constituting a blue chip.
  • bluecurls — a name for the plant Trichostema dichotomum
  • body cell — somatic cell.
  • bold face — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in this dictionary
  • bold-face — type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface.
  • boldfaced — impudent or forward in manner
  • bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
  • bone cell — a cell found in bone in any of its functional states; an osteoblast, osteoclast, or osteocyte.
  • boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
  • botchedly — in a botched or clumsy manner
  • bracelets — a slang name for handcuffs
  • bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
  • bracteole — a secondary bract subtending a flower within an inflorescence
  • branchlet — a small branch
  • bricklike — resembling a brick
  • bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
  • bucketful — A bucketful of something is the amount contained in a bucket.
  • buckle up — When you buckle up in a car or a plane, you fasten your seat belt.
  • buckley's — no chance at all
  • bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
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