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12-letter words containing b, u, c, o

  • bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • 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
  • brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
  • broad church — You can refer to an organization, group, or area of activity as a broad church when it includes a wide range of opinions, beliefs, or styles.
  • brochureware — (jargon, business)   A planned, but non-existent, product, like vaporware but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed to con customers into not committing to a competing existing product. The term is now especially applicable to new websites, website revisions, and ancillary services such as customer support and product return. Owing to the explosion of database-driven, cookie-using dot-coms (of the sort that can now deduce that you are, in fact, a dog), the term is now also used to describe sites made up of static HTML pages that contain not much more than contact info and mission statements. The term suggests that the company is small, irrelevant to the web, local in scope, clueless, broke, just starting out, or some combination thereof. Many new companies without product, funding, or even staff, post brochureware with investor info and press releases to help publicise their ventures. As of December 1999, examples include pop.com and cdradio.com. Small-timers that really have no business on the web such as lawncare companies and divorce laywers inexplicably have brochureware made that stays unchanged for years.
  • broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
  • buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
  • bucket about — (esp of a boat in a storm) to toss or shake violently
  • buffer force — a force separating two opposing sides
  • buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
  • bulldog clip — A bulldog clip is a metal clip with a spring lever that opens and closes two flat pieces of metal. It is used for holding papers together.
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
  • buoyancy aid — a type of usually foam-filled lifejacket designed for use in sports such as canoeing
  • burseraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Burseraceae, a tropical family of trees and shrubs having compound leaves and resin or balsam in their stems. The family includes bdellium and some balsams
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
  • cacao butter — cocoa butter
  • cape buffalo — a large, black, nearly hairless, very fierce buffalo (Syncerus caffer) of South Africa, with horns joined at the bases to form a helmetlike structure
  • carbon brush — a small block of carbon used to convey current between the stationary and moving parts of an electric generator, motor, etc
  • carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
  • carbonaceous — of, resembling, or containing carbon
  • charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
  • chequerboard — Alternative spelling of checkerboard.
  • child labour — the full-time employment of children below a minimum age laid down by statute
  • chlorambucil — an alkylating drug derived from nitrogen mustard, administered orally in the treatment of leukaemia and other malignant diseases. Formula: C14H19Cl2NO2
  • cinnamon bun — a honey bun flavored with cinnamon and often containing raisins.
  • circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
  • clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
  • cloud banner — banner cloud.
  • cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
  • cluster bomb — A cluster bomb is a type of bomb which is dropped from an aircraft. It contains a large number of smaller bombs that spread out before they hit the ground.
  • coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
  • coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
  • cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
  • cocoa butter — a yellowish-white waxy solid that is obtained from cocoa beans and used for confectionery, soap, etc
  • coconut crab — a large, terrestrial crab, Birgus latro, of islands in the South Pacific, that feeds on coconuts.
  • collembolous — of or relating to colembolans
  • colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
  • 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
  • combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
  • communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
  • communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • compoundable — That can be compounded.
  • computer bus — bus
  • 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
  • confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
  • confabulator — to converse informally; chat.
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