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9-letter words containing c, l, o

  • basilicon — any of a variety of healing ointments applied to wounds in early medicine, commonly using lard or oil, resin, and wax
  • batchelor — (British) alternative spelling of bachelor.
  • beclamour — to clamour excessively
  • beclouded — Simple past tense and past participle of becloud.
  • bee block — bee2 (def 1).
  • bel canto — a style of singing characterized by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
  • belection — bolection.
  • bellicose — You use bellicose to refer to aggressive actions or behaviour that are likely to start an argument or a fight.
  • belomancy — the art of divination using arrows
  • bibliotic — relating to bibliotics
  • bicoastal — Someone or something that is bicoastal lives or occurs on both the east coast and the west coast of the U.S.
  • biconical — an object shaped like two cones with their bases together.
  • bifocaled — wearing bifocals
  • bilection — bolection
  • billycock — any of several round-crowned brimmed hats of felt, such as the bowler
  • bilocular — divided into two chambers or cavities
  • binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
  • biologics — biological products such as vaccines and therapeutic sera, used to induce immunity to infectious diseases or harmful substances of biological origin
  • biosocial — relating to the interaction of biological and social elements
  • black box — A black box is an electronic device in an aircraft which records information about its flights. Black boxes are often used to provide evidence about accidents.
  • black cow — Midwestern U.S. a root beer float containing vanilla ice cream.
  • black dog — depression or melancholy
  • black fog — (in Cape Cod, Mass.) a dense fog.
  • black fox — a red fox in a color phase in which its fur is mostly black.
  • black oak — any of various North American oaks (esp. Quercus velutina) with dark bark or foliage
  • black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
  • black rod — (in Britain) an officer of the House of Lords and of the Order of the Garter, whose main duty is summoning the Commons at the opening and proroguing of Parliament
  • black rot — any of various plant diseases of fruits and vegetables, producing blackening, rotting, and shrivelling and caused by bacteria (including Xanthomonas campestris) and fungi (such as Physalospora malorum)
  • blackbody — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
  • blackcock — the male of the black grouse
  • blackfoot — a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
  • blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
  • blackpoll — a North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black-and-white head
  • blackpool — a town and resort in NW England, in Blackpool unitary authority, Lancashire on the Irish Sea: famous for its tower, 158 m (518 ft) high, and its illuminations. Pop: 142 283 (2001)
  • blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
  • blackwood — a tall Australian acacia tree, A. melanoxylon, having small clusters of flowers and curved pods and yielding highly valued black timber
  • blackwork — embroidery done with black, usually silk, thread on white fabric, especially linen.
  • 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.
  • block off — When you block off a door, window, or passage, you put something across it so that nothing can pass through it.
  • block out — If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it.
  • block tin — pure tin, esp when cast into ingots
  • 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.
  • blockbust — to encourage the sale of property by means of blockbusting
  • 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
  • blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
  • blockwork — a wall or structure made of bricks or blocks, or the act of building such a structure
  • blow-back — Blow-back is when the air flow through a carburetor suddenly changes direction. This is often caused by incorrect ignition.
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