9-letter words containing n, i, c
- avocation — Your avocation is a job or activity that you do because you are interested in it, rather than to earn your living.
- avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
- avoparcin — an antibiotic, now banned in the EU, formerly used to treat farm animals
- avouching — Present participle of avouch.
- back link — (hypertext) A link in one direction implied by the existence of an explicit link in the other direction.
- back nine — the holes of a golf course numbered 10 through 18, regarded as a unit
- back pain — pain that is felt in the back
- back-wind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
- backprint — The mark or impression left by a person's back having been pressed against a surface.
- backswing — the movement of a club, bat, or racket backwards, away from the intended point of contact, in preparation for making a stroke
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- balancing — the process of achieving or maintaining equilibrium
- balconied — That has a balcony attached.
- balconies — Plural form of balcony.
- baldachin — a richly ornamented silk and gold brocade
- bandicoot — any agile terrestrial marsupial of the family Peramelidae of Australia and New Guinea. They have a long pointed muzzle and a long tail and feed mainly on small invertebrates
- barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
- basicness — Quality or degree of being basic.
- basilican — basilic (def 2).
- basilicon — any of a variety of healing ointments applied to wounds in early medicine, commonly using lard or oil, resin, and wax
- bc neliac — Version of NELIAC, post 1962. Sammet 1969, p.197.
- beaconing — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- 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.
- belection — bolection.
- bicentric — having two centres
- bick-iron — the tapered end of an anvil.
- 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
- biconical — an object shaped like two cones with their bases together.
- 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
- binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- biocenose — a situation in which organisms live together in mutual dependence
- bionomics — ecology (sense 1)
- 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.
- 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
- blitz can — Military. jerry can (def 1).
- blitz-can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
- block tin — pure tin, esp when cast into ingots
- bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
- bononcini — Giovanni Maria [jaw-vahn-nee mah-ree-ah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1640–78, and his sons Giovanni Battista [baht-tee-stah] /bɑtˈti stɑ/ (Show IPA) 1670–1747, and Marc Antonio [mahrk ahn-taw-nyaw] /mɑrk ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA) 1675–1726, Italian composers.
- botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.