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11-letter words containing b, o, c

  • batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.
  • batological — relating to the study of brambles
  • baudot code — (communications)   (For etymology, see baud) A character set predating EBCDIC and used originally and primarily on paper tape. Use of Baudot reportedly survives in TDDs and some HAM radio applications. In Baudot, characters are expressed using five bits. Baudot uses two code sub-sets, the "letter set" (LTRS), and the "figure set" (FIGS). The FIGS character (11011) signals that the following code is to be interpreted as being in the FIGS set, until this is reset by the LTRS (11111) character. binary hex LTRS FIGS -------------------------- 00011 03 A - 11001 19 B ? 01110 0E C : 01001 09 D $ 00001 01 E 3 01101 0D F ! 11010 1A G & 10100 14 H # 00110 06 I 8 01011 0B J BELL 01111 0F K ( 10010 12 L ) 11100 1C M . 01100 0C N , 11000 18 O 9 10110 16 P 0 10111 17 Q 1 01010 0A R 4 00101 05 S ' 10000 10 T 5 00111 07 U 7 11110 1E V ; 10011 13 W 2 11101 1D X / 10101 15 Y 6 10001 11 Z " 01000 08 CR CR 00010 02 LF LF 00100 04 SP SP 11111 1F LTRS LTRS 11011 1B FIGS FIGS 00000 00 [..unused..] Where CR is carriage return, LF is linefeed, BELL is the bell, SP is space, and STOP is the stop character. Note: these bit values are often shown in inverse order, depending (presumably) which side of the paper tape you were looking at. Local implementations of Baudot may differ in the use of #, STOP, BELL, and '.
  • bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
  • be confined — to be undergoing childbirth
  • beach house — a holiday house overlooking a beach
  • beach towel — a large towel used on the beach
  • beachcomber — A beachcomber is someone who spends their time wandering along beaches looking for things they can use.
  • beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
  • bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
  • beech grove — a grove of beech trees
  • bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
  • below decks — If someone or something is below decks, they are inside a ship in the part of it that is underneath the deck.
  • belt course — an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall
  • belt-course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • benediction — A benediction is a kind of Christian prayer.
  • benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
  • benefaction — the act of doing good, esp by giving a donation to charity
  • benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
  • beneplacito — an indication of approval
  • benevolence — inclination or tendency to help or do good to others; charity
  • benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
  • benue-congo — a branch of the Niger-Congo family of African languages, consisting of the Bantu languages together with certain other languages of W Africa
  • bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
  • betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
  • biblioclasm — a person who mutilates or destroys books.
  • biblioclast — One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
  • bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
  • bibliopegic — relating to bookbinding as a fine art
  • bibliopolic — relating to bibliopoles
  • bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
  • bicarbonate — a salt of carbonic acid containing the ion HCO3–; an acid carbonate
  • bicephalous — having two heads
  • bicomponent — a fibre composed of two compounds
  • biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
  • bicorporate — having two bodies
  • bid welcome — to receive with cordial greetings
  • bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
  • big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
  • bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
  • bimorphemic — pertaining to two morphemes
  • binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • bioactivity — any effect on, interaction with, or response from living tissue.
  • biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
  • biocenology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of biological communities and the interactions among their members.
  • biochemical — Biochemical changes, reactions, and mechanisms relate to the chemical processes that happen in living things.
  • bioclimatic — concerning the relations between climate and living organisms
  • biocoenosis — a diverse community inhabiting a single biotope
  • biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
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