12-letter words containing c, o, b, e
- block letter — a plain capital letter
- block system — the system whereby a railway is divided up into separate sections of track where only one train can travel at a time
- blocked shoe — a dancing shoe with a stiffened toe that enables a ballet dancer to dance on the tips of the toes
- bloodcurdler — something causing great fright or horror: a bloodcurdler of a mystery novel.
- blue succory — a composite garden plant, Catananche caerulea, of southern Europe, having very hairy leaves and blue flower heads, used by the ancients as a love potion.
- bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
- bobbery pack — a mixed pack of hunting dogs, often not belonging to any of the hound breeds
- body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
- body-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each unit cell as well as at the corners
- boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
- boletic acid — fumaric acid.
- bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
- bombacaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bombacaceae, a family of tropical trees, including the kapok tree and baobab, that have very thick stems, often with water-storing tissue
- bombe glacée — a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
- boniface iii — pope a.d. 607.
- boniface vii — antipope a.d. 974, 984–985.
- bonne bouche — a tasty titbit or morsel
- bonne chance — good luck
- bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
- bonus scheme — a scheme in a company or other organization according to which employees receive a bonus if they meet specified targets
- booch method — (programming) A widely used object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design method.
- book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
- book society — book club.
- boot-scraper — a contraption consisting of an upright metal shape formerly placed outside some houses to enable people to scrape the mud from their boots before going in
- booze cruise — a day trip to a foreign country, esp from England across the English Channel to France, for the purposes of buying cheap alcohol, cigarettes, etc
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
- bossier city — city in NW La., on the Red River opposite Shreveport: pop. 56,000
- botticellian — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
- boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
- bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
- bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
- bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
- box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
- brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
- bracket foot — a corner foot of a chest or the like joining the sides in a concave line.
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
- breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
- breeze block — a cinder block.
- breeze-block — A breeze-block is a large, grey brick made from ashes and cement.
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- broca's area — the region of the cerebral cortex of the brain concerned with speech; the speech centre
- brochureware — (jargon, business) A planned, but non-existent, product, like vaporware but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed to con customers into not committing to a competing existing product. The term is now especially applicable to new websites, website revisions, and ancillary services such as customer support and product return. Owing to the explosion of database-driven, cookie-using dot-coms (of the sort that can now deduce that you are, in fact, a dog), the term is now also used to describe sites made up of static HTML pages that contain not much more than contact info and mission statements. The term suggests that the company is small, irrelevant to the web, local in scope, clueless, broke, just starting out, or some combination thereof. Many new companies without product, funding, or even staff, post brochureware with investor info and press releases to help publicise their ventures. As of December 1999, examples include pop.com and cdradio.com. Small-timers that really have no business on the web such as lawncare companies and divorce laywers inexplicably have brochureware made that stays unchanged for years.
- broken chord — a chord played as an arpeggio
- broken-check — a check pattern in which the rectangular shapes are slightly irregular.
- bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.