9-letter words containing e, n, c
- back nine — the holes of a golf course numbered 10 through 18, regarded as a unit
- back vent — (in plumbing) a vent situated on the sewer side of a trap.
- backbench — A backbench MP is a Member of Parliament who is not a minister and who does not hold an official position in his or her political party.
- backbends — Plural form of backbend.
- backboned — With a strong spine.
- backbones — Plural form of backbone.
- backplane — A board to which the main circuit boards of a computer may be connected and that provides connections between them.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- balancers — Plural form of balancer.
- balconied — That has a balcony attached.
- balconies — Plural form of balcony.
- 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
- baronetcy — the rank, position, or patent of a baronet
- basicness — Quality or degree of being basic.
- bc neliac — Version of NELIAC, post 1962. Sammet 1969, p.197.
- beaconage — a number or system of beacons.
- beaconing — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- bean curd — Bean curd is a soft white or brown food made from soya beans.
- becalming — Present participle of becalm.
- bechstein — Karl. 1826–1900, German piano maker; founder (1853) of the Bechstein company of piano manufacturers in Berlin
- beckoning — a nod, gesture, etc., that signals, directs, summons, indicates agreement, or the like.
- bedecking — Present participle of bedeck.
- beechnuts — Plural form of beechnut.
- bel canto — a style of singing characterized by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
- belection — bolection.
- belomancy — the art of divination using arrows
- bench dog — a dog on exhibit at a dog show before and after competition in the show ring.
- benchland — a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains
- benchless — without a bench or benches
- 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.
- bicentric — having two centres
- bickering — to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
- biconcave — (of a lens) having concave faces on both sides; concavo-concave
- bigeneric — (of a hybrid plant) derived from parents of two different genera
- bijection — a mathematical function or mapping that is both an injection and a surjection and therefore has an inverse
- bilection — bolection
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- biocenose — a situation in which organisms live together in mutual dependence
- bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
- 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.
- blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
- blackener — someone who blackens
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- blanchett — Cate (keɪt), full name Catherine Elise Blanchett. born 1969, Australian actress; her films include Elizabeth (1998), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03), Notes on a Scandal (2006), and Blue Jasmine (2013) for which she won an Academy Award
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- bleomycin — a glycopeptide antibiotic drug used in the treatment of cancer and Hodgkin's Disease