10-letter words containing c
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- bank check — A bank check is a check that you can buy from a bank in order to pay someone who is not willing to accept a personal check.
- bank clerk — an employee of a bank
- bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
- baphometic — relating to the worship of the idol Baphomet, whom the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping during the Crusades
- bar kochba — Simeon. died 135 ad, Jewish leader who led an unsuccessful revolt against the Romans in Palestine
- bar-le-duc — Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- barbituric — of or derived from barbituric acid
- barcaroles — Plural form of barcarole.
- barcarolle — a boating song of the Venetian gondoliers.
- bardacious — bodacious.
- bare-faced — You use bare-faced to describe someone's behaviour when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly.
- barebacker — (slang) A person who engages in barebacking.
- barenecked — Having the neck bare.
- bariatrics — the study of obesity and its treatment
- bark cloth — a papery fabric made from the fibrous inner bark of various trees, esp of the moraceous genus Ficus and the leguminous genus Brachystegia
- barleycorn — a grain of barley, or barley itself
- barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
- barn dance — A barn dance is a social event people go to for country dancing.
- baroceptor — Baroreceptor.
- baroclinic — of, relating to, or having the property of baroclinity.
- barometric — Barometric pressure is the atmospheric pressure that is shown by a barometer.
- barophilic — (of living organisms) growing best in conditions of high atmospheric pressure
- baroscopic — Relating to, or determined by, the baroscope.
- baroswitch — a switch actuated by barometric pressure.
- barotropic — having a density that is a function only of pressure.
- barracking — Present participle of barrack.
- barracoota — Alt form barracouta.
- barracouta — a large predatory Pacific fish, Thyrsites atun, with a protruding lower jaw and strong teeth: family Gempylidae
- barracudas — Plural form of barracuda.
- barricaded — a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy.
- barricades — Plural form of barricade.
- barycenter — (physics) The center of a mass; often specifically, the point at which the gravitational forces exerted by two objects are equal.
- barycentre — a centre of mass, esp of the earth-moon system or the solar system
- basal cell — a cell of the basal, or deepest, layer of the epidermis
- base price — a price quoted as a base without including additional charges.
- basic rate — the standard or lowest level on a scale of money payable, esp in taxation
- basic salt — a salt formed by the partial neutralization of a base.
- basic slag — a furnace slag produced in steel-making, containing large amounts of calcium phosphate: used as a fertilizer
- basic wage — a person's wage excluding overtime, bonuses, etc
- basilectal — (linguistics) of, or relating to a basilect.
- basilicata — a region of S Italy, between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Gulf of Taranto. Capital: Potenza. Pop: 596 821 (2003 est). Area: 9985 sq km (3855 sq miles)
- basketcase — Alternative form of basket case.
- basophilic — having an affinity for basic stains.
- bat chayil — (in some congregations) a ceremony of confirmation for a girl of at least Bat Mitzvah age
- batch file — a computer file with sequential commands to be executed when the file is read
- batch mode — computer processing in which commands are input from a batch file, not interactively
- batchmates — Plural form of batchmate.
- bath brick — a brick-shaped piece of calcareous earth, used for cleaning polished metal