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9-letter words containing s, a, b, c

  • fishyback — a cargo supply chain involving container transfer from lorry to ship
  • flashback — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
  • focusable — Capable of being focused.
  • fullbacks — Plural form of fullback.
  • gas black — finely powdered carbon produced by burning natural gas. It is used as a pigment in paints, etc
  • gernsback — Hugo, 1884–1967, U.S. publisher and inventor, born in Belgium: a pioneer in science-fiction publishing.
  • givebacks — Plural form of giveback.
  • graybacks — Plural form of grayback.
  • gynobasic — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
  • gypsy cab — a taxicab that is licensed only to pick up passengers on call by telephone, but that often illegally seeks passengers on the street.
  • halfbacks — Plural form of halfback.
  • hardbacks — Plural form of hardback.
  • hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
  • hexabasic — containing six hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced or ionized: a hexabasic acid.
  • holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
  • horseback — the back of a horse.
  • humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
  • incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.
  • irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
  • irascibly — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
  • isobathic — having the same depth.
  • jackboots — Plural form of jackboot.
  • jacobsite — a rare magnetic mineral, manganese iron oxide, MnFe 2 O 4 , similar to magnetite.
  • kickbacks — Plural form of kickback.
  • lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
  • leaseback — the disposal of a building, land, or other property to a buyer under special arrangements for simultaneously leasing it on a long-term basis to the original seller, usually with an option to renew the lease.
  • local bus — (hardware)   A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
  • maccabees — (used with a plural verb) the members of the Hasmonean family of Jewish leaders and rulers comprising the sons of Mattathias and their descendants and reigning in Judea from 167? to 37 b.c., especially Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, who defeated the Syrians under Antiochus IV in 165? and rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem.
  • machabees — Maccabees (def 2).
  • marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
  • megabucks — one million dollars.
  • microbars — Plural form of microbar.
  • misbecame — Simple past tense and past participle of misbecome.
  • monobasic — Chemistry. (of an acid) containing one replaceable hydrogen atom.
  • mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
  • mossbacks — Plural form of mossback.
  • neckbands — Plural form of neckband.
  • nonblacks — Plural form of nonblack.
  • obeisance — a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior; a bow, curtsy, or other similar gesture.
  • obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
  • obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • obsecrate — to entreat solemnly; beseech; supplicate.
  • obstacles — Plural form of obstacle.
  • obstinacy — the quality or state of being obstinate; stubbornness.
  • osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
  • polybasic — (of an acid) having two or more atoms of replaceable hydrogen.
  • push back — force to retreat
  • rabbinics — the Hebrew language as used by rabbis in post-Biblical times.
  • rheobasic — of or relating to rheobase
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