9-letter words containing c, r
- bear claw — a sweet, almond-flavored breakfast pastry made with yeast dough and shaped in an irregular semicircle resembling a bear's claw.
- beclamour — to clamour excessively
- becquerel — Antoine Henri (ɑ̃twan ɑ̃ri). 1852–1908, French physicist, who discovered the photographic action of the rays emitted by uranium salts and so instigated the study of radioactivity: Nobel prize for physics 1903
- becripple — to make or cause to become crippled.
- bed chair — an adjustable frame for assisting invalids to sit up in bed.
- bedcovers — Plural form of bedcover.
- bell arch — a round arch resting on prominent corbels.
- benchmark — A benchmark is something whose quality or quantity is known and which can therefore be used as a standard with which other things can be compared.
- benchrest — a tablelike support for a target rifle used in target practice.
- berdichev — a city in W central Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
- bescatter — to scatter or strew about
- bev curls — long locks of hair, considered to be typical of a certain kind of unfashionable male
- bewitcher — a person who enchants or bewitches
- bezoardic — relating to bezoar
- bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
- bicentric — having two centres
- bick-iron — the tapered end of an anvil.
- bickering — to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
- bid price — The bid price of a particular stock or share is the price that investors are willing to pay for it.
- 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
- bike rack — stand for parking cycles
- billerica — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- bilocular — divided into two chambers or cavities
- binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- biometric — Biometric tests and devices use biological information about a person to create a detailed record of their personal characteristics.
- biopiracy — the use of wild plants by international companies to develop medicines, without recompensing the countries from which they are taken
- biradical — a molecule with two centres
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- bird call — a sound made by a bird.
- birdwatch — to watch birds
- bisectrix — the bisector of the angle between the optic axes of a crystal
- bishopric — A bishopric is the area for which a bishop is responsible, or the rank or office of being a bishop.
- black arm — a type or phase of bacterial blight of cotton, characterized by black, elongated lesions on the stem and branches, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas malvacearum.
- black art — black magic
- black rat — a common rat, Rattus rattus: a household pest that has spread from its native Asia to all countries
- 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)
- black run — an extremely difficult run, suitable for expert skiers
- black tar — black heroin.
- blackacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from whiteacre).
- blackbird — A blackbird is a common European bird. The male has black feathers and a yellow beak, and the female has brown feathers.
- blackburn — a city in NW England, in Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority, Lancashire: formerly important for textiles, now has mixed industries. Pop: 105 085 (2001)
- blackener — someone who blackens
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
- blackwork — embroidery done with black, usually silk, thread on white fabric, especially linen.
- 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