8-letter words containing c, o, u
- beclouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becloud.
- bicolour — two-coloured
- blackout — A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
- block up — If you block something up or if it blocks up, it is blocked completely so that nothing can get through it.
- blue cod — a common marine spiny-finned food fish, Parapercis colias, of the sub-Antarctic waters of New Zealand, esp at the Chatham Islands, which is greenish blue with brown marbling and inhabits rocky bottoms. Its smoked flesh is considered a delicacy
- bluecoat — a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
- boot-cut — (of trousers) slightly flared at the bottom of the legs
- botch-up — A botch-up is the same as a botch.
- bouchard — (Louis) Henri [lwee ahn-ree] /lwi ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1875–1960, French sculptor.
- boudicca — died 62 ad, a queen of the Iceni, who led a revolt against Roman rule in Britain; after being defeated she poisoned herself
- bouncing — If you say that someone is bouncing with health, you mean that they are very healthy. You can also refer to a bouncing baby.
- brochure — A brochure is a magazine or thin book with pictures that gives you information about a product or service.
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- bucchero — an Etruscan black ceramic ware, often ornamented with incised geometrical patterns or figures carved in relief.
- buck for — If you are bucking for something, you are working very hard to get it.
- buckaroo — a cowboy
- buckhorn — horn from a buck, used for knife handles, etc
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- bucolics — a pastoral poem.
- bucovina — Bukovina
- buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
- bullocky — the driver of a team of bullocks
- buncombe — bunkum
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- caducous — (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
- caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- call out — If you call someone out, you order or request that they come to help, especially in an emergency.
- call-out — an act or instance of calling out.
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- cameroun — Cameroon
- camp out — If you say that people camp out somewhere in the open air, you are emphasizing that they stay there for a long time, because they are waiting for something to happen.
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- canorous — tuneful; melodious
- captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
- capuccio — a capuche
- carcajou — wolverine
- cariacou — any of several deer of the American subgenus Cariacus
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- carneous — fleshy
- carousal — a merry drinking party
- caroused — Simple past tense and past participle of carouse.
- carousel — At an airport, a carousel is a moving surface from which passengers can collect their luggage.
- carouser — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carouse.