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8-letter words containing b, i, c, o

  • bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
  • broccoli — Broccoli is a vegetable with green stalks and green or purple tops.
  • bromidic — ordinary; dull
  • bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
  • bucolics — a pastoral poem.
  • bucovina — Bukovina
  • bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
  • 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
  • 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).
  • carbinol — methanol
  • carbolic — of or derived from carbolic acid.
  • carbonic — (of a compound) containing carbon, esp tetravalent carbon
  • caribous — Plural form of caribou.
  • cb radio — a device that transmits and receives radio signals only within a designated band of frequencies. Compare Citizens Band.
  • cenobite — a member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
  • chibouks — Plural form of chibouk.
  • chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
  • chin job — a cosmetic operation to improve the shape of the chin
  • chinbone — the front part of the jawbone that constitutes the chin
  • chip box — chad box
  • choirboy — A choirboy is a boy who sings in a church choir.
  • 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 (– ◡ ◡ –)
  • cibation — the act of feeding
  • ciborium — a goblet-shaped lidded vessel used to hold consecrated wafers in Holy Communion
  • cicisbeo — the escort or lover of a married woman, esp in 18th-century Italy
  • cimbalom — a type of dulcimer, esp of Hungary
  • cobaltic — of or containing cobalt, esp in the trivalent state
  • cobbling — to pave with cobblestones.
  • cockbill — to tilt up one end of
  • cockbird — a male bird
  • cohabits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohabit.
  • coin box — the part of a coin-operated machine into which coins are placed
  • 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)
  • colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
  • 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)
  • columbic — niobic.
  • combined — A combined effort or attack is made by two or more groups of people at the same time.
  • combiner — Any of various electronic devices that combine signals, in particular.
  • combines — Plural form of combine.
  • combings — the loose hair, wool, etc, removed by combing, esp that of animals
  • comblike — resembling a comb
  • combwise — in the manner of a comb
  • comorbid — (of an illness or condition) happening at the same time as another illness or condition
  • con brio — (to be performed) with liveliness or spirit, as in the phrase allegro con brio
  • contrib. — contributor
  • conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
  • coolibah — A northern Australian gum tree that typically grows near watercourses and yields strong, hard timber.
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