9-letter words containing e, t, c
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- baronetcy — the rank, position, or patent of a baronet
- base coat — the first coat of paint applied to a prepared surface
- basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
- batchelor — (British) alternative spelling of bachelor.
- batchmate — (India) classmate.
- beach hut — a hut used for changing, storing deckchairs, etc
- beat back — to force to retreat; drive back
- bechstein — Karl. 1826–1900, German piano maker; founder (1853) of the Bechstein company of piano manufacturers in Berlin
- bedjacket — A short jacket worn when sitting up in bed, usually by women.
- beechmast — collective term for beech nuts, esp when lying on the ground
- beechnuts — Plural form of beechnut.
- bel canto — a style of singing characterized by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
- belection — bolection.
- benchrest — a tablelike support for a target rifle used in target practice.
- bepatched — mended with or covered in patches
- bescatter — to scatter or strew about
- best-case — being the best that can possibly be expected; optimal
- beta cell — B cell (def 2).
- betatopic — (of atoms) differing in proton number by one, theoretically as a result of emission of a beta particle
- bewitched — to affect by witchcraft or magic; cast a spell over.
- bewitcher — a person who enchants or bewitches
- bicaudate — having two tails or taillike appendages.
- bicentric — having two centres
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- bijection — a mathematical function or mapping that is both an injection and a surjection and therefore has an inverse
- bijective — (of a function, relation, etc) associating two sets in such a way that every member of each set is uniquely paired with a member of the other
- bile duct — the duct that conveys bile from the liver and the gall bladder to the duodenum
- bilection — bolection
- bioactive — (of a substance) having or producing an effect on living tissue
- bioethics — the study of ethical problems arising from biological research and its applications in such fields as organ transplantation, genetic engineering, or artificial insemination
- biometric — Biometric tests and devices use biological information about a person to create a detailed record of their personal characteristics.
- bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
- bisectrix — the bisector of the angle between the optic axes of a crystal
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bit decay — bit rot
- bit slice — (of central processing units) able to be built up in sections to form complete central processing units with various word lengths
- bitchface — Also called resting bitchface, bitchy resting face, chronic bitchface. (especially of a woman) a facial expression that does not consciously express a particular emotion but that others perceive as scowling, threatening, etc.: I can’t help that I have resting bitchface. Her face naturally goes into a bitchface, but I promise she’s super friendly. I’m not angry, I just have chronic bitch face. Abbreviation: RBF. (especially of a woman) a deliberate facial expression of anger or disgust, often employed to appear unapproachable: I put on my bitchface when I ride the train so creepy guys don’t talk to me. It’s important to perfect your bitchface.
- bitchfest — a malicious and spiteful discussion of people, events, etc
- bite back — If you bite back a feeling or something that you were going to say, you stop yourself from expressing it.
- black tea — tea withered and fermented before being dried by heating
- black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
- black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
- 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
- bloc-vote — to vote in or as a bloc: Party conservatives can be counted on to bloc-vote.
- boat deck — the deck of a ship on which the lifeboats are kept
- boat neck — a high slitlike neckline of a garment that extends onto the shoulders
- bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
- bontebuck — bontebok.
- botchedly — in a botched or clumsy manner