9-letter words containing n, a, c
- barrancas — Plural form of barranca.
- 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.
- beaconage — a number or system of beacons.
- beaconing — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- bean curd — Bean curd is a soft white or brown food made from soya beans.
- becalming — Present participle of becalm.
- bel canto — a style of singing characterized by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
- belomancy — the art of divination using arrows
- benchland — a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains
- benchmark — A benchmark is something whose quality or quantity is known and which can therefore be used as a standard with which other things can be compared.
- biconcave — (of a lens) having concave faces on both sides; concavo-concave
- biconical — an object shaped like two cones with their bases together.
- binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- 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.
- black bun — a very rich dark fruitcake, usually in a pastry case
- black run — an extremely difficult run, suitable for expert skiers
- blackband — a type of iron carbonate
- 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)
- blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
- blackener — someone who blackens
- blackland — an area of dark peaty soil
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
- blanchett — Cate (keɪt), full name Catherine Elise Blanchett. born 1969, Australian actress; her films include Elizabeth (1998), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03), Notes on a Scandal (2006), and Blue Jasmine (2013) for which she won an Academy Award
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- 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.
- boat neck — a high slitlike neckline of a garment that extends onto the shoulders
- boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
- botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
- 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.