13-letter words containing c, o, e, t
- bomber jacket — A bomber jacket is a short jacket which is gathered into a band at the waist or hips.
- booster cable — either of a pair of electric cables having clamps at each end and used for starting the engine of a vehicle whose battery is dead.
- bootlace worm — a nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus, that inhabits shingly shores and attains lengths of over 6 m (20 ft)
- boston rocker — a type of 19th-cent. American rocking chair, having a curved wooden seat and a high back formed of spindles held in place by a broad headpiece
- bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
- bouncy castle — A bouncy castle is a large object filled with air, often in the shape of a castle, which children play on at a fairground or other outdoor event.
- bow collector — a sliding current collector, consisting of a bow-shaped strip mounted on a hinged framework, used on trains, etc, to collect current from an overhead-wire
- box stretcher — a heavy rectangular stretcher connecting successive legs of a table, chair, etc.
- boycott apple — (legal) Some time before 1989, Apple Computer, Inc. started a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, claiming they had breeched Apple's copyright on the look and feel of the Macintosh user interface. In December 1989, Xerox failed to sue Apple Computer, claiming that the software for Apple's Lisa computer and Macintosh Finder, both copyrighted in 1987, were derived from two Xerox programs: Smalltalk, developed in the mid-1970s and Star, copyrighted in 1981. Apple wanted to stop people from writing any program that worked even vaguely like a Macintosh. If such look and feel lawsuits succeed they could put an end to free software that could substitute for commercial software. In the weeks after the suit was filed, Usenet reverberated with condemnation for Apple. GNU supporters Richard Stallman, John Gilmore and Paul Rubin decided to take action against Apple. Apple's reputation as a force for progress came from having made better computers; but The League for Programming Freedom believed that Apple wanted to make all non-Apple computers worse. They therefore campaigned to discourage people from using Apple products or working for Apple or any other company threatening similar obstructionist tactics (e.g. Lotus and Xerox). Because of this boycott the Free Software Foundation for a long time didn't support Macintosh Unix in their software. In 1995, the LPF and the FSF decided to end the boycott.
- boynton beach — a city in SE Florida.
- brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
- bracket clock — a small clock designed to be placed on a bracket or shelf.
- breast pocket — The breast pocket of a man's coat or jacket is a pocket, usually on the inside, next to his chest.
- broad hatchet — a hatchet with a broad cutting edge.
- bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
- bronco buster — a person who breaks broncos to the saddle.
- buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
- buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
- butcher block — designating or of a thick slab made by gluing together strips of hardwood, as maple or oak, used for counter and table tops, etc.
- butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
- butter cookie — Cookery. a plain cookie whose chief ingredients are butter, flour, and sugar.
- butter cooler — an earthenware container, consisting of a dish and cover, used to keep butter cool
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- byte compiler — byte-code compiler
- cache storage — cache (def 3).
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- call to order — to request to be quiet, as to start (a meeting)
- calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
- cancellations — Plural form of cancellation.
- canton enamel — Chinese enamelware similar to Limoges.
- canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
- capitate bone — the largest and central bone of the carpus, articulating with the second, third, and fourth metacarpal bones.
- car boot sale — A car boot sale is a sale where people sell things they own and do not want from a little stall or from the back of their car.
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
- carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- carbonneutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
- carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
- cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
- cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
- carlton table — an English writing table of c1800, having curved rear corners and a top with drawers surmounted by a U -shaped section of drawers and cabinets, topped by a brass or ormolu gallery surrounding three sides of the writing area.
- carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
- carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
- carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
- carrie nation — Carry or Carrie (Amelia Moore) 1846–1911, U.S. temperance leader.
- carrot-topped — having red hair