11-letter words containing b, o, c
- germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
- get back to — resume
- glass block — a translucent, hollow or solid block of glass for glazing openings or constructing partitions, usually square on the face, with the outer surfaces treated in any of various ways.
- gnotobiotic — (of germfree animals) inoculated with microorganisms of a given type.
- gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- goblet cell — a type of epithelial cell that secretes mucin, so called after its shape.
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
- goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- great abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- hatchet job — a maliciously destructive critique or act: The special committee has done a hatchet job on the new proposal.
- haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
- heliophobic — fearing or unable to withstand sunlight
- herb doctor — a person who practices healing by the use of herbs.
- hierophobic — a person who suffers from hierophobia
- hollow back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
- hollow-back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
- holobenthic — (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths
- holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- honeycombed — Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- horse block — a step or block of stone, wood, etc., for getting on or off a horse or in or out of a vehicle.
- hybrid corn — a crossbred corn, especially the grain of corn developed by hybridization of repeatedly self-pollinated, and therefore genetically pure, varieties.
- hybrid rock — an igneous rock formed by molten magma incorporating pre-existing rock through which it passes
- hydrobromic — of or derived from hydrobromic acid.
- hydrocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hydrophobic — of or relating to hydrophobia.
- hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
- icebox cake — a confection made from such prepared ingredients as cookies or whipped cream that requires no additional baking but is chilled in a refrigerator before serving.
- if-come bet — pyramid bet.
- imbrication — an overlapping, as of tiles or shingles.
- incoercible — incapable of being coerced or compelled.
- incogitable — Not cogitable; inconceivable.
- incombering — Present participle of incomber.
- income bond — a bond without a guaranteed amount of interest payment, such payment being usually made only out of earnings.
- incrossbred — of or relating to the progeny that result from crossing inbred lines or varieties.
- incubations — Plural form of incubation.
- inobedience — disobedience
- invoiceable — Capable of being invoiced; billable.
- ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
- irrevocable — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
- irrevocably — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
- isallobaric — relating to isobars
- ivory black — a fine black pigment made by calcining ivory.