8-letter words containing c, n, o
- block in — If you are blocked in, someone has parked their car in such a way that you cannot drive yours away.
- blocking — the interruption of anode current in a valve because of the application of a high negative voltage to the grid
- bloncket — of a blue-grey colour
- boatneck — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
- boccioni — Umberto (umˈberto). 1882–1916, Italian painter and sculptor: principal theorist of the futurist movement
- body-con — a style of skintight clothing that emphasizes the contours of the body
- bongrace — a brim or shade on the front of women's bonnets or hats, intended to protect the face from the sun
- boniface — Saint, original name Wynfrith. ?680–?755 ad, Anglo-Saxon missionary: archbishop of Mainz (746–755). Feast day: June 5
- bornitic — of or relating to bornite
- botanica — a shop that sells herbs, charms, and other items associated with alternative medicine or magic
- botching — to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
- bouncing — If you say that someone is bouncing with health, you mean that they are very healthy. You can also refer to a bouncing baby.
- braconid — any member of the Braconidae, a family of parasitoid wasps
- brockton — city in E Mass., near Boston: pop. 94,000
- bromance — A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men.
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- broncho- — indicating or relating to the bronchi
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- buckhorn — horn from a buck, used for knife handles, etc
- bucovina — Bukovina
- buncombe — bunkum
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- c ration — a canned ration used in the field in WWII
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.
- cabochon — a smooth domed gem, polished but unfaceted
- cacation — (archaic) excretion.
- caconymy — the practice of coining caconyms
- caerleon — a town in SE Wales, in Newport county borough on the River Usk: traditionally the seat of King Arthur's court. Pop: 9392 (2001)
- caissons — Plural form of caisson.
- cajoling — Present participle of cajole.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- califont — a gas water heater
- caloocan — a city in the Philippines, on SW Luzon.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- calzones — Plural form of calzone.
- cameleon — Obsolete form of chameleon.
- cameroon — a republic in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: became a German colony in 1884; divided in 1919 into the Cameroons (administered by Britain) and Cameroun (administered by France); Cameroun and the S part of the Cameroons formed a republic in 1961 (the N part joined Nigeria); became a member of the Commonwealth in 1995. Official languages: French and English. Religions: Christian, Muslim, and animist. Currency: franc. Capital: Yaoundé. Pop: 20 549 221 (2013 est). Area: 475 500 sq km (183 591 sq miles)
- cameroun — Cameroon
- camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
- campions — Plural form of campion.
- camstone — a limestone used for whitening stone doorsteps and hearths
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
- candolle — Augustin Pyrame de. 1778–1841, Swiss botanist; his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) introduced a new system of plant classification
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- canework — strips of cane that are interlaced and used in cane chairs or the like.
- cannelon — a dish consisting of a roll of puff pastry stuffed with minced meat or a sweet filling
- cannolis — Plural form of cannoli.