11-letter words containing b, o, c
- cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
- 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
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- counterblow — a retaliatory blow
- counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
- counterbore — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
- counterbuff — a retaliatory blow
- coupon bond — a bond, usually a bearer bond, that pays interest by means of coupons with specific cash values.
- course book — A course book is a textbook that students and teachers use as the basis of a course.
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- cowboy boot — a boot having a thick, angled heel of medium height and, usually, a pointed toe and ornamental stitching, tooling, etc.: traditionally worn by American cowboys
- 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.
- cross-bench — a seat in Parliament occupied by a neutral or independent member
- cross-breed — If one species of animal or plant cross-breeds with another, they reproduce, and new or different animals or plants are produced. You can also say that someone cross-breeds something such as an animal or plant.
- 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
- crossbedded — having layers of rock oblique or transverse to the main beds of stratified rock
- crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
- crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
- crossbreeds — Plural form of crossbreed.
- crossmember — A transverse structural piece that adds support to a motor-vehicle chassis or other construction.
- crowberries — Plural form of crowberry.
- crown block — A crown block is a fixed set of sheaves (= pulleys) at the top of a derrick, over which the drilling line is run.
- crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
- cryobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of the effects of very low temperatures on organisms
- cryptobiont — any organism that exhibits cryptobiosis
- cuff button — the button for a shirt cuff.
- cumulonimbi — Plural form of cumulonimbus.
- cunobelinus — also called Cymbeline. died ?42 ad, British ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe (?10–?42); founder of Colchester (?10)
- cupid's bow — a shape of the upper lip considered to resemble Cupid's double-curved bow
- currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
- cut tobacco — tobacco cut into thin shreds as used in cigarettes, often for pipes and for rolling
- cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
- 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.
- 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.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- 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)
- diamondback — any edible North American terrapin of the genus Malaclemys, esp M. terrapin, occurring in brackish and tidal waters and having diamond-shaped markings on the shell: family Emydidae
- dichlobenil — a nonselective preemergence herbicide, C 7 H 3 Cl 2 N, used primarily as a weed and grass killer.
- dissociable — capable of being dissociated; separable: Worthy and unworthy motives are often not dissociable.