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.