9-letter words containing c, y, b
- fibrocyte — an inactive fibroblast
- fishyback — a cargo supply chain involving container transfer from lorry to ship
- fly block — (in a Spanish burton or the like) a block, supported by a runner, through which the hauling part of the fall is rove.
- glace bay — a town in E Nova Scotia, in SE Canada, on E Cape Breton Island on the Atlantic Ocean.
- graybacks — Plural form of grayback.
- gynobasic — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- gypsy cab — a taxicab that is licensed only to pick up passengers on call by telephone, but that often illegally seeks passengers on the street.
- habitancy — the act or fact of inhabiting; inhabitancy.
- hackberry — any of several trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Celtis, of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit.
- honeycomb — a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
- hybristic — hubris.
- hypercube — A geometric figure in four or more dimensions that is analogous to a cube in three dimensions.
- hypobaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity lower than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hyperbaric (def 1).
- imbracery — embracery.
- incapably — In an incapable manner.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- inducibly — In an inducible manner.
- irascibly — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- jubilancy — (rare) Jubilation.
- lobectomy — excision of a lobe of an organ or gland.
- lubricity — oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
- lucky bag — a bag of mixed sweets, intended for children; the bag is transparent, so that you do not know exactly what it contains
- lynch mob — A lynch mob is an angry crowd of people who want to kill someone without a trial, because they believe that person has committed a crime.
- lynchburg — a city in central Virginia.
- lyophobic — noting a colloid the particles of which have little or no affinity for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
- macabrely — In a macabre manner.
- macbinary — (file format) An eight-bit wide representation of the data and resource forks of an Macintosh file and of relevant Finder information. MacBinary files are recognised as "special" by several MacIntosh terminal emulators. These emulators, using Kermit or XMODEM or any other file transfer protocol, can separate the incoming file into forks and appropriately modify the Desktop to display icons, types, creation dates, and the like.
- microbody — (cytology): A cellular organelle bound by a single membrane and containing enzymes.
- mobocracy — political control by a mob.
- moby dick — a novel (1851) by Herman Melville.
- mycobiont — the fungal component of a lichen.
- objectify — to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.
- objectory — (programming) An object-oriented methodology mostly created by Ivar Jacobson.
- obscenely — offensive to morality or decency; indecent; depraved: obscene language.
- obscenity — the character or quality of being obscene; indecency; lewdness.
- obscurely — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obscurity — the state or quality of being obscure.
- obstinacy — the quality or state of being obstinate; stubbornness.
- pay cable — cable television.
- peaceably — inclined or disposed to avoid strife or dissension; not argumentative or hostile: a peaceable person; a peaceable disposition.
- piggyback — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
- play back — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- polybasic — (of an acid) having two or more atoms of replaceable hydrogen.
- pony club — an international youth organization that educates young people about horses and horse riding
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- publicity — extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
- revocably — that may be revoked.
- schoolboy — a boy attending school.
- scrape by — If someone scrapes by, they earn just enough money to live on with difficulty.