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

  • contributional — the act of contributing.
  • contributorily — In a contributory manner.
  • corruptibility — that can or might be corrupted.
  • cottony jujube — an Indian evergreen shrub or small tree, Ziziphus mauritiana, of the buckthorn family, having leaves that are rusty-hairy on the underside and small, round, red, acid fruit.
  • council bluffs — city in SW Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebr.: pop. 58,000
  • countable noun — A countable noun is the same as a count noun.
  • countably many — countable
  • counter-boulle — contre-partie.
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
  • countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
  • county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
  • court cupboard — a wooden stand with two or three tiers, used in the 16th and 17th centuries to display pewter, silver, etc
  • court-bouillon — a stock made from root vegetables, water, and wine or vinegar, used primarily for poaching fish
  • croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
  • cubic zirconia — a synthetic crystalline compound of zirconium oxide, fashioned to resemble diamonds, etc.
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
  • cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
  • custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
  • discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
  • domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
  • double coconut — a tall, stout, fan palm, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles Islands, having nuts that are the largest seeds of any plant, often weighing 50 pounds (22.6 kg): populations are declining.
  • double deckers — (jargon)   Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
  • fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
  • fourfold block — a block having four pulleys or sheaves. Compare block (def 11).
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
  • gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
  • global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
  • gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
  • inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
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