8-letter words containing b, c, o
- broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broacher — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- brocaded — fabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- broccoli — Broccoli is a vegetable with green stalks and green or purple tops.
- brochure — A brochure is a magazine or thin book with pictures that gives you information about a product or service.
- brockage — a defect or fault imposed on a coin during its minting.
- brockton — city in E Mass., near Boston: pop. 94,000
- bromance — A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men.
- bromidic — ordinary; dull
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- broncho- — indicating or relating to the bronchi
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- bucchero — an Etruscan black ceramic ware, often ornamented with incised geometrical patterns or figures carved in relief.
- buck for — If you are bucking for something, you are working very hard to get it.
- buckaroo — a cowboy
- buckhorn — horn from a buck, used for knife handles, etc
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- bucolics — a pastoral poem.
- bucovina — Bukovina
- buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
- bullocky — the driver of a team of bullocks
- buncombe — bunkum
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- cab-over — a truck tractor or other vehicle in which the cab is located over the engine.
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- caboceer — (formerly) an African native appointed by his leader to supply European slave traders with slaves
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- cabochon — a smooth domed gem, polished but unfaceted
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- cabooses — Plural form of caboose.
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cabotage — coastal navigation or shipping, esp within the borders of one country
- cabrillo — Juan Rodríguez [rod-ree-ges] /rɒdˈri gɛs/ (Show IPA), (Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho) 1499?–1543, Spanish explorer, born in Portugal: discovered California.
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- calbayog — a city in the Philippines, on NW Samar.
- call box — A call box is the same as a telephone box.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- cambodia — a country in SE Asia: became part of French Indochina in 1887; achieved self-government in 1949 and independence in 1953; civil war (1970–74) ended in victory for the Khmer Rouge, who renamed the country Kampuchea (1975) and carried out extreme-radical political and economic reforms resulting in a considerable reduction of the population; Vietnamese forces ousted the Khmer Rouge in 1979 and set up a pro-Vietnamese government who reverted (1981) to the name Cambodia; after Vietnamese withdrawal in 1989 a peace settlement with exiled factions was followed in 1993 by the adoption of a democratic monarchist constitution restoring Prince Sihanouk to the throne. The country contains the central plains of the Mekong River and the Cardamom Mountains in the SW. Official language: Khmer; French is also widely spoken. Currency: riel. Capital: Phnom Penh. Pop: 15 205 539 (2013 est). Area: 181 000 sq km (69 895 sq miles)
- cambogia — gamboge (def 1).
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
- car bomb — A car bomb is a bomb which is inside a car, van, or truck.
- car boot — the place at the back of a car for putting luggage in
- car-bomb — a bomb placed in a vehicle and wired to explode when the ignition is started, by remote control, or by a timing device.