10-letter words containing c, o, b, d
- condonable — to disregard or overlook (something illegal, objectionable, or the like): The government condoned the computer hacking among rival corporations.
- confidable — Able to be entrusted with secrets, or private information.
- conscribed — Simple past tense and past participle of conscribe.
- contraband — Contraband refers to goods that are taken into or out of a country illegally.
- cord blood — blood from the placenta drawn through the newly severed umbilical cord, collected for study or for possible transfusion to treat disease in the child.
- cordonbleu — any of several small African finches of the genus Uraeginthus, having pale blue and buff plumage and commonly kept as cage birds.
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- corkboards — Plural form of corkboard.
- corn bread — a baked or fried flat bread made with cornmeal and, variously, milk or water, flour, eggs, sugar, etc.
- cornbrandy — any of various alcoholic spirits made from grain, esp whisky
- corrodible — Readily corroded.
- cotton bud — A cotton bud is a small stick with a ball of cotton wool at each end, which people use, for example, for applying make-up.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- crossbands — Plural form of crossband.
- crossbreed — to breed (animals or plants) using parents of different races, varieties, breeds, etc
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- decaborane — (inorganic compound) The stable borane B10H14.
- decoctible — capable of being decocted
- dhobi itch — a fungal disease of the skin: a type of ringworm chiefly affecting the groin
- diabolical — If you describe something as diabolical, you are emphasizing that it is very bad, extreme, or unpleasant.
- discobolus — A discus thrower.
- docibility — the capacity to be taught easily; docility
- double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
- double cup — (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.
- double-cut — noting a file having parallel cutting ridges crisscrossing in two directions.
- douche bag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- drop cable — Wiring between a computer and its Ethernet transceiver. Maximum length if full-spec is 47m.
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- dutch bond — a brickwork bond in which the vertical joints of the stretchers in any course are in line with the centers of the first stretchers above and below.
- embrocated — Simple past tense and past participle of embrocate.
- endamoebic — relating to endamebae
- endobiotic — (of a parasite or symbiont) living within the tissues of a host.
- gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
- ionic bond — the electrostatic bond between two ions formed through the transfer of one or more electrons.
- jackbooted — wearing jackboots.
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- knackebrod — flat, thin, brittle unleavened rye bread.
- lead block — any block that alters the direction of a rope; fairlead.
- lumbricoid — resembling an earthworm.
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- microblade — bladelet.
- mossbacked — Very conservative or reactionary, with old-fashioned views.