12-letter words containing b, o, t, i, c
- bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
- box junction — (in Britain) a road junction having yellow cross-hatching painted on the road surface. Vehicles may only enter the hatched area when their exit is clear
- boxing match — a competition between two boxers
- branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bring action — to start a lawsuit
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
- cabot strait — a channel in Canada, connecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the Atlantic Ocean. 68 miles (109 km) wide.
- cactoblastis — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum of South America, that was introduced into Australia to act as a biological control on the prickly pear
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
- carbocations — Plural form of carbocation.
- carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
- carotid body — a small mass of cells and nerve endings adjacent to the carotid sinus that, in response to chemical changes in the blood, adjusts the respiratory rate.
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
- cerebrotonia — a personality type characterized by restraint, alertness, and an intellectual approach to life: said to be correlated with an ectomorph body type
- cerebrotonic — relating to or resembling a personality type characterized by shyness, introspection, and emotional restraint, and often associated with an ectomorphic physique
- cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
- coachability — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
- cohabitating — cohabit.
- cohabitation — the state or condition of living together in a conjugal relationship without being married
- cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
- collectibles — capable of being collected.
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- combinations — a one-piece woollen undergarment with long sleeves and legs
- combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
- concubitancy — a custom requiring marriage between two people, esp a custom requiring a woman to marry her husband's brother on her husband's death
- conglobation — Formation into a ball, globe or rounded mass.
- connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
- contaminable — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- contemptible — If you feel that someone or something is contemptible, you feel strong dislike and disrespect for them.
- contemptibly — deserving of or held in contempt; despicable.
- contractible — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- contributary — contributory
- contributers — Misspelling of contributors.
- contributing — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contribution — If you make a contribution to something, you do something to help make it successful or to produce it.
- contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contributors — Plural form of contributor.
- contributory — A contributory factor of a problem or accident is one of the things which caused it to exist or happen.
- conurbations — Plural form of conurbation.
- convertibles — Plural form of convertible.
- corn bunting — a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)