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

  • cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
  • corncribs — Plural form of corncrib.
  • coulibiac — a Russian dish of rich pastry with a filling of salmon or other fish and mushrooms, onions, egg, buckwheat, dill, etc.
  • coulombic — relating to the discoveries of Charles Augustin de Coulomb
  • courbaril — a tropical American leguminous tree, Hymenaea courbaril. Its wood is a useful timber and its gum is a source of copal
  • cowboying — Present participle of cowboy.
  • cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
  • crossbill — any of various widely distributed finches of the genus Loxia, such as L. curvirostra, that occur in coniferous woods and have a bill with crossed mandible tips for feeding on conifer seeds
  • crossbite — a dental condition in which the lower teeth are in front of the upper teeth
  • crow-bill — a type of forceps used to extract bullets, etc, from wounds
  • cymbiform — having the shape of a boat
  • dicky bow — a bow tie
  • discoboli — Plural form of discobolus.
  • ebionitic — relating to the Ebionites or their teachings
  • eco-bling — equipment that is energy-efficient but less effective than simpler technology
  • ecophobia — Fear of one\u2019s home.
  • embryonic — Of or relating to an embryo.
  • embryotic — Embryonic.
  • escribano — a clerk or scribe
  • etobicoke — city in SE Ontario, Canada: part of metropolitan Toronto: pop. 329,000
  • excambion — an exchange, esp of land
  • fibonacci — Leonardo (leoˈnardo), also called Leonardo of Pisa. ?1170–?1250, Italian mathematician: popularized the decimal system in Europe
  • fibrocyte — an inactive fibroblast
  • fine-comb — to use a fine-tooth comb on.
  • fluoboric — containing the univalent group BF 4 − .
  • forecabin — the forward cabin on a vessel
  • gin block — a block having a large sheave in an open metal frame, used especially to support a cargo whip.
  • go public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
  • goldbrick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
  • gynobasic — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
  • hypobaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity lower than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hyperbaric (def 1).
  • ice block — a flavoured frozen water ice: in Australia and New Zealand, sometimes on a stick
  • iceboater — a person who races iceboats, especially as a hobby or in competition.
  • incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
  • invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
  • isobathic — having the same depth.
  • jacobinic — Of or relating to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary.
  • jacobsite — a rare magnetic mineral, manganese iron oxide, MnFe 2 O 4 , similar to magnetite.
  • katabolic — Alternative form of catabolic.
  • kickabout — An informal amateur game of football/soccer.
  • kickboard — a buoyant, usually small board that is used to support the arms of a swimmer, used chiefly in practicing kicking movements.
  • kickboxer — someone who practises kickboxing
  • knobstick — A stick with a rounded knob at the end.
  • lockerbie — a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a passenger jet (Pan Am flight 103) was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town. Pop: 4009 (2001)
  • log cabin — house made of trimmed tree trunks
  • lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
  • lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
  • lyophobic — noting a colloid the particles of which have little or no affinity for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
  • macrobian — Having an exceptionally long life span.
  • maracaibo — a seaport in NW Venezuela.
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