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10-letter words containing c

  • bath chair — a wheelchair for invalids, often with a hood
  • bathyscaph — a submersible vessel having a flotation compartment with an observation capsule underneath, capable of reaching ocean depths of over 10 000 metres (about 5000 fathoms)
  • batrachian — any amphibian, esp a frog or toad
  • battercake — pancake (def 1).
  • batticaloa — a seaport in E Sri Lanka.
  • battle cry — A battle cry is a phrase that is used to encourage people to support a particular cause or campaign.
  • bcs theory — Physics. a general quantum theory of superconductivity that describes many properties of superconducting materials.
  • be excused — to go to the lavatory
  • be in luck — You can say someone is in luck when they are in a situation where they can have what they want or need.
  • beach babe — an attractive girl seen on beaches
  • beach ball — A beach ball is a large, light ball filled with air, which people play with, especially on the beach.
  • beach berm — berm (def 3).
  • beach crab — any of various crabs that live on beaches, as the ghost crab.
  • beach face — the seaward section of a beach exposed to and shaped by the action of waves.
  • beach flea — sand hopper
  • beach plum — a rosaceous shrub, Prunus maritima, of coastal regions of E North America
  • beach-berm — Also, berme. Fortification. a horizontal surface between the exterior slope of a rampart and the moat.
  • beachballs — Plural form of beachball.
  • beachfront — A beachfront house, café, shop, or hotel is situated on or by a beach.
  • beachgoers — Plural form of beachgoer.
  • beachheads — Plural form of beachhead.
  • beachscape — a section or expanse of beach and shore scenery.
  • beam brick — a face brick for bonding to a concrete lintel poured in place, having a section like a right triangle.
  • beam reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
  • bean caper — a shrub, Zygophyllum fabago, of E Mediterranean regions, whose flower buds are eaten as a substitute for capers: family Zygophyllaceae
  • beast epic — a long verse narrative in which the misadventures of animals satirize human foibles and follies.
  • beatifical — Beatific.
  • beautician — A beautician is a person whose job is giving people beauty treatments such as doing their nails, treating their skin, and putting on their make-up.
  • because of — If an event or situation occurs because of something, that thing is the reason or cause.
  • beclouding — Present participle of becloud.
  • become due — to become payable as previously arranged
  • becomingly — that suits or gives a pleasing effect or attractive appearance, as to a person or thing: a becoming dress; a becoming hairdo.
  • becquerels — Plural form of becquerel.
  • bed jacket — a woman's short upper garment worn over a nightgown when sitting up in bed
  • bedchamber — A bedchamber is a bedroom.
  • bedclothes — Bedclothes are the sheets and covers which you put over yourself when you get into bed.
  • bee orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys apifera, whose flower resembles a bumble bee in shape and colour
  • beech fern — a fern, Thelypteris phegopteris, that grows in damp N temperate woods and hills: family Polypodiaceae
  • beech mast — the edible nuts of the beech, especially when lying on the ground.
  • beechdrops — a North American flowering plant, Epifagus virginiana, which is parasitic on beech trees
  • bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
  • bell curve — a curve resembling the outline of a flared bell, usually representing a normal distribution
  • bell punch — a machine that issues or stamps a ticket, etc, ringing a bell as it does so
  • bell-curve — bell-shaped curve.
  • bellacoola — a member of a riverine tribe of North American Indians inhabiting an area near the central coast of British Columbia.
  • belly pack — fanny pack.
  • bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
  • belowdecks — below a ship's deck
  • beltcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • benacerraf — Baruj. 1920–2011, Venezuelan-born US immunologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1980) for his work on histocompatibility antigens
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