12-letter words containing b, o, y
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chord symbol — any of a series of letters and numerals, used as a shorthand indication of chords, esp in jazz, folk, or pop music
- ciliary body — the part of the vascular tunic of the eye that connects the choroid with the iris
- coachability — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- cockeyed bob — a short, violent storm.
- cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
- collywobbles — an upset stomach
- columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
- combat-ready — ready for combat
- communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- 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
- connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
- conscionably — being in conformity with one's conscience; just.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
- contemptibly — deserving of or held in contempt; despicable.
- contributary — contributory
- contributory — A contributory factor of a problem or accident is one of the things which caused it to exist or happen.
- controllably — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- cookery book — A cookery book is the same as a cookbook.
- countability — the fact of being countable
- country club — A country club is a club in the country where you can play sports and attend social events.
- country-born — born in the country
- country-bred — brought up in the country
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- courtesy bus — a free bus
- cowboy boots — Cowboy boots are high, leather boots, similar to those worn by cowboys.
- crossability — the quality of being crossable
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- cryptobiosis — a temporary state in an organism in which metabolic activity is absent or undetectable
- cryptobiotic — Of or pertaining to cryptobiosis.
- cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cybertrooper — (in Malaysia) An activist who uses cyberspace.
- cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
- delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- detonability — the quality of being detonable
- diabolically — having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked: a diabolic plot.
- dicarboxylic — containing two carboxyl groups in the molecule
- die horribly — (jargon) The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
- dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde