9-letter words containing b, u, c, o
- club-foot — a knoblike foot formed from the end of a cabriole leg as a continuation of its lines: less flat than a pad foot but otherwise similar.
- clubhouse — A clubhouse is a place where the members of a club, especially a sports club, meet.
- clubrooms — Plural form of clubroom.
- clubwoman — a woman who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
- cobaltous — of or containing cobalt in the divalent state
- cocklebur — any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium, having spiny burs: family Asteraceae (composites)
- code blue — (often initial capital letters) a medical emergency in which paramedics are dispatched to aid a person undergoing cardiac arrest.
- coenobium — a monastery or convent
- colubriad — a poem about a snake
- colubrine — of or resembling a snake
- columbary — a dovecote
- columbate — any salt of columbic acid
- columbian — of or relating to the United States
- columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
- columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
- columbium — niobium
- columbous — niobous.
- combretum — any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Combretum, native mainly to tropical and subtropical Africa and producing attractive flowers
- combusted — Simple past tense and past participle of combust.
- combustor — the combustion system of a jet engine or ramjet, comprising the combustion chamber, the fuel injection apparatus, and the igniter
- concubine — In former times, a concubine was a woman who lived with and had a sexual relationship with a man of higher social rank without being married to him.
- connubial — of or relating to marriage; conjugal
- corbicula — pollen basket.
- corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- coulibiac — a Russian dish of rich pastry with a filling of salmon or other fish and mushrooms, onions, egg, buckwheat, dill, etc.
- coulombic — relating to the discoveries of Charles Augustin de Coulomb
- countable — capable of being counted
- countably — in a countable manner
- countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
- courbaril — a tropical American leguminous tree, Hymenaea courbaril. Its wood is a useful timber and its gum is a source of copal
- courbette — A movement in dressage in which the horse makes a series of jumps on the hind legs with the forelegs in the air.
- cowabunga — Used to express delight or satisfaction.
- cowboy up — to adopt a tough approach or course of action
- cropbound — (of poultry) having a congested crop
- crossbuck — (in the US) a white cross-shaped road sign used at railway crossings
- crotonbug — species of cockroach
- cub scout — a member of a junior branch (for those aged 8–11 years) of the Scout Association
- cubbyhole — A cubbyhole is a very small room or space for storing things.
- cube root — The cube root of a number is another number that makes the first number when it is multiplied by itself twice. For example, the cube root of 8 is 2.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- curb roof — a roof having two or more slopes on each side of the ridge
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- currycomb — a square comb consisting of rows of small teeth, used for grooming horses
- cut above — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
- debouched — Simple past tense and past participle of debouche.
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- door-buck — a sawhorse.