9-letter words containing r, c, n
- bickering — to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
- bigeneric — (of a hybrid plant) derived from parents of two different genera
- binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- black run — an extremely difficult run, suitable for expert skiers
- blackburn — a city in NW England, in Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority, Lancashire: formerly important for textiles, now has mixed industries. Pop: 105 085 (2001)
- blackener — someone who blackens
- brabancon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a short, smooth coat.
- bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
- bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
- braincase — the part of the cranium that protects the brain
- brainfuck — (language) An eight-instruction esoteric programming language created by Urban Müller. His goal was apparently to create a Turing-complete language with the smallest compiler ever, for the Amiga OS 2.0. He eventually reduced his compiler to under 200 bytes. A Brainfuck program has a pointer that moves within an array of 30000 bytes, initially all set to zero. The pointer initially points to the beginning of this array. The language has eight commands, each of which is represented as a single character, and which can be expressed in terms of C as follows: > ==> ++p; < ==> --p; + ==> ++*p; - ==> --*p; . ==> putchar(*p); , ==> *p = getchar(); [ ==> while (*p) { ] ==> } Brian Raiter's Brainfuck page.
- brainsick — relating to or caused by insanity; crazy; mad
- branchery — a group or system of branches
- branchiae — the gills of an aquatic animal
- branchial — of or relating to the gills of an aquatic animal, esp a fish
- branching — the occurrence of several decay paths (branches) in the disintegration of a particular nuclide or the de-excitation of an excited atom. The branching fraction (nuclear) or branching ratio (atomic) is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides
- branchio- — gills
- branchlet — a small branch
- breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- breakneck — If you say that something happens or travels at breakneck speed, you mean that it happens or travels very fast.
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- breeching — the strap of a harness that passes behind a horse's haunches
- brickkiln — a kiln or furnace in which bricks are baked or burned.
- britannic — of Britain; British (esp in the phrases His or Her Britannic Majesty)
- brittonic — Brythonic
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- broomcorn — a variety of sorghum, Sorghum vulgare technicum, the long stiff flower stalks of which have been used for making brooms
- brown cow — a drink made by mixing cola and milk
- brunching — a meal that serves as both breakfast and lunch.
- brunswick — a former duchy (1635–1918) and state (1918–46) of central Germany, now part of the state of Lower Saxony; formerly (1949–90) part of West Germany
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- buccaneer — A buccaneer was a pirate, especially one who attacked and stole from Spanish ships in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- bucentaur — the state barge of Venice from which the doge and other officials dropped a ring into the sea on Ascension Day to symbolize the ceremonial marriage of the state with the Adriatic
- buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
- bucranium — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- c horizon — the layer of a soil profile immediately below the B horizon and above the bedrock, composed of weathered rock little affected by soil-forming processes
- c rations — tinned food formerly issued in packs to US soldiers
- c-spanner — a sickle-shaped spanner having a projection at the end of the curve, used for turning large narrow nuts that have an indentation into which the projection on the spanner fits
- cabernets — Plural form of cabernet.
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- caesarean — of or relating to any of the Caesars, esp Julius Caesar
- caesarian — of or relating to a Cesarean.
- cafe noir — black coffee
- cairngorm — a smoky yellow, grey, or brown variety of quartz, used as a gemstone
- calabrian — of or relating to Calabria or its inhabitants
- calandria — a cylindrical vessel through which tubes pass, esp one forming part of an evaporator, heat exchanger, or nuclear reactor
- calcarine — resembling, related to, or having a calcar