8-letter words containing c, o, b, l
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- broccoli — Broccoli is a vegetable with green stalks and green or purple tops.
- bucolics — a pastoral poem.
- bullocky — the driver of a team of bullocks
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- cabrillo — Juan Rodríguez [rod-ree-ges] /rɒdˈri gɛs/ (Show IPA), (Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho) 1499?–1543, Spanish explorer, born in Portugal: discovered California.
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- calbayog — a city in the Philippines, on NW Samar.
- call box — A call box is the same as a telephone box.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- carbinol — methanol
- carbolic — of or derived from carbolic acid.
- carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
- carboxyl — the group COOH, characteristic of organic acids, including fatty acids and amino acids
- chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
- choliamb — an imperfect iambic metre, with a spondee as the last foot
- 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.
- clobbers — Plural form of clobber.
- clonebot — (chat) (Or "clone") A bot meant to replicate itself en masse on a talk network (generally IRC). A bot appears on the network as several agents, and then carries out some task, typically that of flooding another user. Compare ghost.
- closable — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- close-by — nearby; adjacent; neighboring.
- clubfoot — If someone has a clubfoot, they are born with a badly twisted foot.
- clubmoss — Alternative spelling of club moss.
- clubroom — a room used by a club for meetings, activities, socializing, etc
- clubroot — a disease of cabbages and related plants, caused by the fungus Plasmodiophora brassicae, in which the roots become thickened and distorted
- 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
- cobblers — rubbish; nonsense
- cobblery — the occupation of shoemaking or shoemending
- cobbling — to pave with cobblestones.
- cockbill — to tilt up one end of
- cocobola — timber from trees of the genus Delbergia, including rosewood
- cocobolo — the hard, durable wood of any of several tropical trees of the genus Dalbergia, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
- coloboma — a structural defect of the eye, esp in the choroid, retina, or iris
- colombes — an industrial and residential suburb of NW Paris. Pop: 83 220 (2006)
- 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)
- colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
- 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)
- columbic — niobic.
- columbus — a city in central Ohio: the state capital. Pop: 728 432 (2003 est)
- combless — without a comb
- comblike — resembling a comb
- conglobe — to gather or form into a globe or ball
- 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