9-letter words containing e, l, c
- balancers — Plural form of balancer.
- balconied — That has a balcony attached.
- balconies — Plural form of balcony.
- baldfaced — blatant or undisguised
- ball race — a ball bearing
- barbicels — Plural form of barbicel.
- barcarole — a Venetian boat song in a time of six or twelve quaver beats to the bar
- barcelona — the chief port of Spain, on the NE Mediterranean coast: seat of the Republican government during the Civil War (1936–39); the commercial capital of Spain. Pop: 1 582 738 (2003 est)
- barnacled — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- barnacles — nose pincers for controlling an unruly horse
- bass clef — the clef that establishes F a fifth below middle C on the fourth line of the staff
- batchelor — (British) alternative spelling of bachelor.
- bc neliac — Version of NELIAC, post 1962. Sammet 1969, p.197.
- beachball — a large light brightly coloured ball for playing with on a beach
- bear claw — a sweet, almond-flavored breakfast pastry made with yeast dough and shaped in an irregular semicircle resembling a bear's claw.
- becalming — Present participle of becalm.
- 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
- becripple — to make or cause to become crippled.
- bed place — a space housing a bed or bedding, especially one having the form of a cupboard closed with doors or curtains.
- bee block — bee2 (def 1).
- bel canto — a style of singing characterized by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
- belection — bolection.
- belgicism — a word or expression used by Belgians when speaking French or Dutch
- bell arch — a round arch resting on prominent corbels.
- bellicose — You use bellicose to refer to aggressive actions or behaviour that are likely to start an argument or a fight.
- bellyache — Bellyache is a pain inside your abdomen, especially in your stomach.
- belomancy — the art of divination using arrows
- benchland — a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains
- benchless — without a bench or benches
- bespeckle — to mark with speckles
- beta cell — B cell (def 2).
- bev curls — long locks of hair, considered to be typical of a certain kind of unfashionable male
- bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
- bice blue — a medium or deep sky-blue color, duller than aquamarine or azure.
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- bile acid — any of various steroid acids, produced in the liver and stored with bile, that emulsify fats during digestion.
- bile duct — the duct that conveys bile from the liver and the gall bladder to the duodenum
- bilection — bolection
- billerica — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bit slice — (of central processing units) able to be built up in sections to form complete central processing units with various word lengths
- bivalence — the semantic principle that there are exactly two truth values, so that every meaningful statement is either true or false
- bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
- black eye — If someone has a black eye, they have a dark-coloured bruise around their eye.
- black ice — Black ice is a thin, transparent layer of ice on a road or path that is very difficult to see.
- black sea — an inland sea between SE Europe and Asia: connected to the Aegean Sea by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, and to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait. Area: about 415 000 sq km (160 000 sq miles)
- black tea — tea withered and fermented before being dried by heating