11-letter words containing b, o, a
- cooch behar — a former state of NE India: part of West Bengal since 1950
- cookie bear — cookie monster
- copaiba oil — a colorless, yellowish, or bluish liquid having a pepperlike odor and bitter taste, obtained from copaiba by distillation: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes and soaps.
- coprophobia — an abnormal fear of feces.
- coral bells — a perennial, ornamental alumroot (Heuchera sanguinea) native to SW North America, with racemes of drooping pink or white flowers
- coram nobis — a writ to correct an injury caused by a mistake of the court.
- corbel arch — a construction like an arch but composed of masonry courses corbeled until they meet.
- corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
- core barrel — (in a core drill) a length of pipe for holding rock cores while they are being extracted from the drill hole.
- cornerbacks — Plural form of cornerback.
- correctable — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- corroborant — serving to corroborate
- corroborate — To corroborate something that has been said or reported means to provide evidence or information that supports it.
- corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
- corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
- costa brava — a coastal region of NE Spain along the Mediterranean, extending from Barcelona to the French border: many resorts
- cotton swab — A cotton swab is the same as a swab.
- cougar bait — a younger man who is often pursued by older women seeking a sexual relationship: We all agreed he was prime cougar bait.
- counterbase — a double bass
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- coxcombical — of or resembling the characteristic nature of a coxcomb
- crab-plover — a black and white wading bird, Dromas ardeola, of the northern and western shores of the Indian Ocean.
- cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
- crazy about — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crossbarred — having a crossbar or crossbars
- crossbearer — a person who carries or wears a cross
- crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
- cut tobacco — tobacco cut into thin shreds as used in cigarettes, often for pipes and for rolling
- cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
- cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- daggerboard — a light bladelike board inserted into the water through a slot in the keel of a boat to reduce keeling and leeway
- daimyo bond — a bearer bond issued in Japan and the eurobond market by the World Bank
- dative bond — coordinate bond
- dative-bond — a type of covalent bond between two atoms in which the bonding electrons are supplied by one of the two atoms.
- day boarder — a child attending a boarding school who has meals at the school but sleeps at home
- day laborer — an unskilled worker paid by the day
- db2 catalog — (database) An IBM DB2 system table listing all objects in a database installation including hosts, servers, databases, tables and many more. Commands are provided to manage the catalog, e.g. db2 catalog database mydatabase on /databases/mydatabase to add a database reference.
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- deal a blow — If an event deals a blow to something or someone, it causes them great difficulties or makes failure more likely.
- dealing box — a box that holds a deck or decks of cards, allowing them to be dealt only one at a time, often used in casino games such as blackjack or chemin de fer.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)
- decarbonize — to remove carbon from (the walls of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine)
- delagoa bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean, in S Mozambique
- deliberator — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delibration — (obsolete, uncountable) The act of stripping off bark.