9-letter words containing e, c, u
- backer-up — a supporter; backer; second.
- backhouse — an outdoor privy; outhouse
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- barbecued — Cooked in a barbecue.
- barbecuer — someone who cooks using a barbecue
- barbecues — Plural form of barbecue.
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- beach bum — If you refer to someone as a beach bum, you mean that they spend a lot of time enjoying themselves on the beach or in the sea.
- beach hut — a hut used for changing, storing deckchairs, etc
- bean curd — Bean curd is a soft white or brown food made from soya beans.
- beclamour — to clamour excessively
- beclouded — Simple past tense and past participle of becloud.
- 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
- beechnuts — Plural form of beechnut.
- bev curls — long locks of hair, considered to be typical of a certain kind of unfashionable male
- bicaudate — having two tails or taillike appendages.
- bice blue — a medium or deep sky-blue color, duller than aquamarine or azure.
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- bile duct — the duct that conveys bile from the liver and the gall bladder to the duodenum
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- 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
- bontebuck — bontebok.
- buccaneer — A buccaneer was a pirate, especially one who attacked and stole from Spanish ships in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- bucentaur — the state barge of Venice from which the doge and other officials dropped a ring into the sea on Ascension Day to symbolize the ceremonial marriage of the state with the Adriatic
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- buck bean — a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, of the gentian family, having narrow clusters of white or pink flowers.
- 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
- buckteeth — a projecting tooth, especially an upper front tooth.
- buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
- buckytube — a tube of carbon atoms structurally similar to buckminsterfullerene
- bucuresti — Bucharest
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- bug-juice — an alcoholic beverage, especially of an inferior quality.
- bull neck — a short thick neck
- bullycide — the act or an instance of killing oneself intentionally as a result of bullying
- burleycue — burlesque (def 3).
- busticate — to break
- butcher's — a look
- butchered — a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
- butcherer — a person who butchers
- butcherly — of or resembling a butcher