8-letter words containing c, a, b, o
- chad box — (hardware) (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
- chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
- chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
- chapbook — a book of popular ballads, stories, etc, formerly sold by chapmen or pedlars
- choliamb — an imperfect iambic metre, with a spondee as the last foot
- choriamb — a metrical foot used in classical verse consisting of four syllables, two short ones between two long ones (– ◡ ◡ –)
- chubasco — (in Mexico) a hurricane
- cibation — the act of feeding
- cimbalom — a type of dulcimer, esp of Hungary
- clackbox — the casing enclosing a clack
- clangbox — a device fitted to a jet-engine to change the direction of thrust
- clayborn — a male given name.
- closable — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- coalball — a nodule of coal containing fossilized plant remains
- cob coal — coal in large, rounded lumps
- cobaltic — of or containing cobalt, esp in the trivalent state
- cockboat — any small boat
- cocobola — timber from trees of the genus Delbergia, including rosewood
- cohabits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohabit.
- cohobate — to redistil (a distillate), esp by allowing it to mingle with the remaining matter
- coloboma — a structural defect of the eye, esp in the choroid, retina, or iris
- colombia — a republic in NW South America: inhabited by Chibchas and other Indians before Spanish colonization in the 16th century; independence won by Bolívar in 1819; became the Republic of Colombia in 1886; violence and unrest have been endemic since the 1970s. It consists chiefly of a hot swampy coastal plain, separated by ranges of the Andes from the pampas and the equatorial forests of the Amazon basin in the east. Language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Bogotá. Pop: 45 745 783 (2013 est). Area: 1 138 908 sq km (439 735 sq miles)
- columbia — a river in NW North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing through British Columbia, then west to the Pacific. Length: about 1930 km (1200 miles)
- combahee — a river in S South Carolina, flowing SE to the Atlantic Ocean. 40 miles (64 km) long.
- combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combater — One who combats.
- comeback — If someone such as an entertainer or sports personality makes a comeback, they return to their profession or sport after a period away.
- conurban — of or relating to a conurbation
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- cookable — That can be cooked; suitable for cooking.
- cool bag — an insulated container used to keep food cool on picnics, to carry frozen food, etc
- coolabah — an Australian myrtaceous tree, Eucalyptus microtheca, that grows along rivers and has smooth bark and long narrow leaves
- coolibah — A northern Australian gum tree that typically grows near watercourses and yields strong, hard timber.
- coos bay — a town in SW Oregon.
- copiable — Alternative spelling of copyable.
- copyable — able to be copied
- corbinas — Plural form of corbina.
- cornball — Cornball means the same as corny.
- corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
- costable — For which a monetary cost may be assessed.
- cotabato — a city on W central Mindanao, in the S Philippines.
- cottabus — (in ancient Greece) a game that was popular among young men at drinking parties and which involved throwing wine into a vessel while uttering the name of a beloved
- crabwood — a tropical American meliaceous tree, Carapa guianensis
- crossbar — A crossbar is a horizontal piece of wood attached to two upright pieces, for example a part of the goal in football.
- crowbait — an emaciated, worn-out horse or cow.
- crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- cuboidal — Also, cuboidal. resembling a cube in form.
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- cymbalom — cimbalom