11-letter words containing b, r, o, c
- counterbuff — a retaliatory blow
- 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.
- 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
- currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
- cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
- cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
- 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)
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
- doxorubicin — a cytotoxic antibiotic, C 27 H 29 NO 11 , derived from a variety of the bacterium Streptomyces peucetius and used in the treatment of sarcoma, malignant lymphoma, acute leukemia, and other cancers.
- echo boomer — a member of Generation Y, born in the 1980s or 1990s; a Millennial.
- embarcadero — (rare) A quay; a wharf.
- embarcation — Alternative form of embarkation.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- embrocating — Present participle of embrocate.
- embrocation — A liquid used for rubbing on the body to relieve pain from sprains and strains.
- embryectomy — the surgical removal of an embryo
- embryologic — Embryological.
- enforceable — Capable of being enforced.
- exorbitance — The state or characteristic of being exorbitant.
- exorbitancy — Alternative form of exorbitance.
- fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
- fabricators — Plural form of fabricator.
- facebookers — Plural form of facebooker.
- fiberscopes — Plural form of fiberscope.
- fibre optic — using or consisting of very thin flexible fibres of glass down which information modulated on light is carried
- fibrocement — (formerly) cement combined with asbestos fibre, used esp in sheets for building
- fibrocystic — showing or having the increased fibrosis associated with dilated glandular structure, as in the breast nodules of fibrocystic disease.
- fibronectin — a fibrous protein that binds to collagen, fibrin, and other proteins and also to the cell membranes, functioning as an anchor and connector.
- forbearance — the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.