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9-letter words containing c, l, o

  • blow-comb — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance combining a comb and blow-dryer, permitting one to style the hair while drying it.
  • blowtorch — A blowtorch is the same as a blowlamp.
  • blue comb — a disease of birds resembling Bright's disease in humans affecting especially domestic fowl, characterized by fever, sunken eyes, and shriveling of the skin of the wattles, shanks, and comb.
  • body cell — somatic cell.
  • bold face — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in this dictionary
  • bold-face — type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface.
  • boldfaced — impudent or forward in manner
  • bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
  • bone cell — a cell found in bone in any of its functional states; an osteoblast, osteoclast, or osteocyte.
  • boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
  • book club — A book club is an organization that offers books at reduced prices to its members.
  • bootblack — a person whose work is shining shoes and boots
  • botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
  • botchedly — in a botched or clumsy manner
  • box lunch — A box lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • bracteole — a secondary bract subtending a flower within an inflorescence
  • bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
  • broccolis — a form of a cultivated cruciferous plant, Brassica oleracea botrytis, whose leafy stalks and clusters of usually green buds are eaten as a vegetable.
  • bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
  • caballero — a Spanish gentleman
  • cable box — an electronic device that allows cable television channels to be viewed by a subscriber.
  • cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
  • cacholong — a type of opal, commonly of a milky colour
  • cacodylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the cacodyl group.
  • cacomixle — Alternative spelling of cacomixl.
  • cagoulard — a member of a secret French organization, active 1932–40, that conspired to overthrow the Third Republic.
  • cajeputol — cineole.
  • cajuputol — a colorless, oily, slightly water-soluble liquid terpene ether, C 10 H 18 O, having a camphorlike odor and a pungent, spicy, cooling taste, found in eucalyptus, cajeput, and other essential oils: used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine chiefly as an expectorant.
  • cakeholes — Plural form of cakehole.
  • calabogus — a mixed drink containing rum, spruce beer, and molasses
  • calaboose — a prison; jail
  • calamanco — a glossy woollen fabric woven with a checked design that shows on one side only
  • calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
  • calcicole — any plant that thrives in lime-rich soils
  • calciform — Having the form of calx, chalk or lime.
  • calculose — calculous
  • calculous — of or suffering from a calculus
  • caldecott — Randolph1846-86; Eng. artist & illustrator: illustrated many books for children
  • caledonia — Scotland
  • calembour — a pun
  • calf love — temporary infatuation or love of an adolescent for a member of the opposite sex
  • calfdozer — a small bulldozer
  • caliatour — a tropical dyewood, possibly red sandalwood
  • calimanco — calamanco.
  • calimocho — a cocktail popular in Spanish-speaking countries, consisting of a mixture of cola and red wine
  • caliology — the study of birds' nests
  • call down — to request or invoke
  • call loan — a loan that is repayable on demand
  • call upon — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
  • call-down — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
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