8-letter words containing b, i, c, a
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- calabria — a region of SW Italy: mostly mountainous and subject to earthquakes. Chief town: Reggio di Calabria. Pop: 2 007 392 (2003 est). Area: 15 080 sq km (5822 sq miles)
- calebite — a member of a tribe descended from Caleb.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- cambiata — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a skip, usually of a third above or below, and progressing by a step.
- cambists — Plural form of cambist.
- cambiums — Plural form of cambium.
- 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).
- cambrian — of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
- cambrick — Obsolete form of cambric.
- cannabin — a greenish-black poisonous resin obtained from the Indian hemp plant
- cannabis — Cannabis is the hemp plant when it is used as a drug.
- cannibal — Cannibals are people who eat the flesh of other human beings.
- capibara — a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent.
- carabids — Plural form of carabid.
- carbamic — of or derived from carbamic acid.
- carbanil — phenyl isocyanate.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- carbinol — methanol
- carbolic — of or derived from carbolic acid.
- carbonic — (of a compound) containing carbon, esp tetravalent carbon
- caribees — See under Antilles.
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
- catbrier — any prickly vines of the genus Smilax, such as greenbrier
- cb radio — a device that transmits and receives radio signals only within a designated band of frequencies. Compare Citizens Band.
- celibacy — Celibacy is the state of being celibate.
- celibate — Someone who is celibate does not marry or have sex, because of their religious beliefs.
- centibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/100 (0.01) bar or 10,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- chabasie — Dated form of chabazite.
- chabrier — (Alexis) Emmanuel (emanɥɛl). 1841–94, French composer; noted esp for the orchestral rhapsody España (1883)
- chasible — Alternative form of chasuble.
- chibchan — a family of Indian languages found in Colombia and elsewhere in South America
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- choliamb — an imperfect iambic metre, with a spondee as the last foot
- choriamb — a metrical foot used in classical verse consisting of four syllables, two short ones between two long ones (– ◡ ◡ –)
- ciabatta — Ciabatta or ciabatta bread is a type of white Italian bread that is made with olive oil.
- cibarium — Entomology. a food pouch in front of the mouth in certain insects.
- cibation — the act of feeding
- cimbalom — a type of dulcimer, esp of Hungary
- cinnabar — a bright red or brownish-red mineral form of mercuric sulphide (mercury(II) sulphide), found close to areas of volcanic activity and hot springs. It is the main commercial source of mercury. Formula: HgS. Crystal structure: hexagonal
- citeable — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- claribel — a female given name.
- cobaltic — of or containing cobalt, esp in the trivalent state
- cohabits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohabit.
- colombia — a republic in NW South America: inhabited by Chibchas and other Indians before Spanish colonization in the 16th century; independence won by Bolívar in 1819; became the Republic of Colombia in 1886; violence and unrest have been endemic since the 1970s. It consists chiefly of a hot swampy coastal plain, separated by ranges of the Andes from the pampas and the equatorial forests of the Amazon basin in the east. Language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Bogotá. Pop: 45 745 783 (2013 est). Area: 1 138 908 sq km (439 735 sq miles)
- columbia — a river in NW North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing through British Columbia, then west to the Pacific. Length: about 1930 km (1200 miles)
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively