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9-letter words containing i, b, c

  • caribbean — The Caribbean is the sea which is between the West Indies, Central America and the north coast of South America.
  • carriable — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
  • cat brier — greenbrier, esp. the vine (Smilax glauca)
  • cat-built — (of a sailing vessel) having a bluff bow and straight stern without a figurehead.
  • catabasis — a descent or downward movement
  • catabolic — destructive metabolism; the breaking down in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones, with the release of energy (opposed to anabolism).
  • cedarbird — a type of waxwing native to North America
  • cediranib — A potent inhibitor of VEGF receptor tyrosine kinases, under development as a possible anticancer drug.
  • celebrity — A celebrity is someone who is famous, especially in areas of entertainment such as films, music, writing, or sport.
  • celecoxib — an anti-inflammatory drug
  • celibates — Plural form of celibate.
  • celibatic — of or relating to celibacy
  • cenobites — Plural form of cenobite.
  • cenobitic — Of or pertaining to a cenobite.
  • cerebroid — resembling the cerebrum or the brain.
  • cetuximab — a monoclonal antibody used to treat cancer
  • chabasite — Alternative form of chabazite.
  • chabazite — a pink, white, or colourless zeolite mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate of calcium, sodium, potassium, and aluminium in hexagonal crystalline form. Formula: Ca2Al2Si4O12.6H2O
  • chainbelt — a belt made up of metal links, used as a conveyor or with a chain gear.
  • chair bed — a chair that can be opened out to form a bed.
  • chairback — the part of a chair that supports the sitter's back
  • chalybite — siderite (def 1).
  • charbroil — to grill (meat) over charcoal
  • charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
  • check bit — a binary digit used as part of a unit of information that is intended to indicate whether or not an error has occurred in the transmission or storage of the information.
  • chemisorb — to take up (a substance) by chemisorption
  • cherubini — (Maria) Luigi (Carlo Zenobio Salvatore) (luˈiːdʒi). 1760–1842, Italian composer, noted particularly for his church music and his operas.
  • chilblain — Chilblains are painful red swellings which people sometimes get on their fingers or toes in cold weather.
  • chin ball — a device fastened under the chin of a bull to mark cows it has mounted
  • chin-bone — the anterior portion of the mandible, forming the prominence of the chin.
  • chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
  • chippable — having the ability to be reduced to small pieces
  • choir-boy — a boy who sings in a choir, especially a church choir.
  • choirboys — Plural form of choirboy.
  • choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
  • chubbiest — Superlative form of chubby.
  • cimbaloms — Plural form of cimbalom.
  • city-born — born in a city.
  • city-bred — reared in a city.
  • claiborne — a male given name.
  • claimable — Able to be claimed.
  • classible — able to be classed
  • clickable — A clickable image on a computer screen is one that you can point the cursor at and click on, in order to make something happen.
  • clickbait — a sensationalized headline or piece of text on the Internet designed to entice people to follow a link to an article on another web page.
  • climbable — to go up or ascend, especially by using the hands and feet or feet only: to climb up a ladder.
  • climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
  • clip bond — a form of brickwork raking bond for a facing of all stretchers, in which the stretchers are tied in to the backing every few courses by diagonally set bricks that project from the backing into angles made by cutting off the concealed corners of the face brick.
  • clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
  • cobalamin — vitamin B12
  • cobaltite — a rare silvery-white mineral consisting of cobalt arsenic sulphide in cubic crystalline form: a major ore of cobalt, used in ceramics. Formula: CoAsS
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