9-Letter Words with B,E,C,U,R,L,_

• French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908)

• A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.

• A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.

• To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle

• any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs

• burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use

• poorly done

• accompanied by bloodshed

• armor carried on the arm to intercept blows

• in an obscure manner

• A forespin pitch thrown by rotating the index and middle fingers down and resulting in motion down "curve"

• (by extension) An unexpected turn of events initiated by an opponent or chance.

• To throw a curveball.