Scrabble words; B, C

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• bargee: n a bargeman
  
• barong: n a long, broad, leaf-shaped knife used as both weapon and tool by the Moros of the Philippines
  
• bathyal: adj relating to regions of the ocean bottom between the sublittoral and abyssal zones, from depths of 200 to 4,000 metres
  
• bey: n a provincial governor in the Ottoman Empire
  
• beylic: n the territory ruled by a bey
  
• bikie: n a biker (Australian)
  
• bohea: n a black Chinese tea, originally the choicest grade but later an inferior variety
  
• bort, bortz: n poorly crystallized diamonds used for industrial cutting and abrasion
  
• boscage: n a mass of trees or shrubs; a thicket
  
• bosky: adj having an abundance of bushes, shrubs or trees; relating to the woods
  
• buhl: n pieces of brass, tortoiseshell, etc. cut to make a pattern and used as decorative inlays esp. on furniture
  
• buhr: n a burr; a protruding, ragged edge raised on the surface of metal during drilling, shearing, punching or engraving



• cark: v to burden or be burdened with trouble; worry
  
• casbah: n a castle or palace in northern Africa; the older or native quarter, or area of a northern African city surrounding the citadel
  
• cenobite: n a member of a convent or other religious community
  
• ciborium: n a covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist
  
• cirrose: adj bearing tendrils, as of a leaf
  
• clerid n a beetle of the family Cleridae, predacious on other insects, usually brightly coloured or metallic
  
• conodont: n a member of an extinct group of small primitive fishlike chordates, preserved primarily in the form of their conelike teeth; a fossil tooth of this chordate, widespread and important in dating rock strata
  
• corium, pl. coria: n dermis; the deep vascular inner layer of skin; armour composed of leather; the elongated, thickened basal portion of the forewing of true bugs
  
• crofter: n a tenant farmer (Scottish)
  
• curacy: n the office, duties, or term of office of a curate