11-letter words containing c, o, b, l
- bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
- bibliopegic — relating to bookbinding as a fine art
- bibliopolic — relating to bibliopoles
- bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
- bicephalous — having two heads
- bid welcome — to receive with cordial greetings
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
- biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
- biocenology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of biological communities and the interactions among their members.
- biochemical — Biochemical changes, reactions, and mechanisms relate to the chemical processes that happen in living things.
- bioclimatic — concerning the relations between climate and living organisms
- bioelectric — of or having to do with electrical energy in living tissues
- biologistic — relating to biologism
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- biomolecule — a molecule occurring naturally in living organisms
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
- black goods — electronic goods which are housed in black or dark casings, such as televisions, CD players, etc
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
- black ivory — Black slaves collectively
- black molly — a jet-black molly, a color form especially of Poecilia latipinna or P. sphenops, popular as an aquarium fish.
- black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
- black olive — a tropical American tree, Bucida buceras, having leathery leaves and greenish-yellow flowers.
- black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
- black volta — a river in W Africa, rising in SW Burkina Faso and flowing northeast, then south into Lake Volta: forms part of the border of Ghana with Burkina-Faso and with Côte d'Ivoire. Length: about 800 km (500 miles)
- black vomit — vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever
- black widow — an American spider, Latrodectus mactans, the female of which is black with red markings, highly venomous, and commonly eats its mate
- blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
- blacktongue — canine pellagra.
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastocoele — the segmentation cavity of a developing ovum or of the blastula
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- block chord — a two-handed chord played usually in the middle range of the piano with the left hand duplicating or complementing the right-hand notes.
- block front — Furniture. a front of a desk, chest of drawers, etc., of the third quarter of the 18th century, having three vertical divisions of equal width, a sunken one between raised ones, all divided by flat areas to which they are connected by curves, often with a shell motif forming a rounded termination to each section.
- block grant — (in Britain) an annual grant made by the government to a local authority to help to pay for the public services it provides, such as health, education, and housing
- block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
- block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
- block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
- block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blogjacking — the use of another person’s blog without his or her consent, esp for malicious or satirical purposes
- blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
- blood count — Your blood count is the number of red and white cells in your blood. A blood count can also refer to a medical examination which determines the number of red and white cells in your blood.
- blood-caked — caked with blood
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.