9-letter words containing l, a, c
- ball race — a ball bearing
- ballastic — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- ballcocks — Plural form of ballcock.
- ballistic — Ballistic means relating to ballistics.
- balmacaan — a man's knee-length loose flaring overcoat with raglan sleeves
- balsamico — Balsamic vinegar.
- bar clamp — a clamp having two jaws attached to a bar, one fixed and the other adjustable by means of a screw mechanism.
- baracaldo — city in The Basque Country, N Spain: pop. 105,000
- 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)
- barkcloth — Cloth made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry or similar tree.
- 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
- basically — You use basically for emphasis when you are stating an opinion, or when you are making an important statement about something.
- basilical — royal, regal
- basilican — basilic (def 2).
- basilicas — Plural form of basilica.
- basilicon — any of a variety of healing ointments applied to wounds in early medicine, commonly using lard or oil, resin, and wax
- 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
- bed place — a space housing a bed or bedding, especially one having the form of a cupboard closed with doors or curtains.
- bel canto — a style of singing characterized by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
- bell arch — a round arch resting on prominent corbels.
- 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
- beta cell — B cell (def 2).
- bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
- bicipital — having two heads
- bicoastal — Someone or something that is bicoastal lives or occurs on both the east coast and the west coast of the U.S.
- biconical — an object shaped like two cones with their bases together.
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- bile acid — any of various steroid acids, produced in the liver and stored with bile, that emulsify fats during digestion.
- billerica — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- bilocular — divided into two chambers or cavities
- binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- biosocial — relating to the interaction of biological and social elements
- biradical — a molecule with two centres
- bird call — a sound made by a bird.
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- 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 arm — a type or phase of bacterial blight of cotton, characterized by black, elongated lesions on the stem and branches, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas malvacearum.