11-letter words containing c, o
- bimorphemic — pertaining to two morphemes
- binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
- binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
- bioactivity — any effect on, interaction with, or response from living tissue.
- 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
- biocoenosis — a diverse community inhabiting a single biotope
- biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
- bioelectric — of or having to do with electrical energy in living tissues
- bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
- biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
- biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
- biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
- biologistic — relating to biologism
- biomedicine — the medical study of the effects of unusual environmental stress on human beings, esp in connection with space travel
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- biomimetics — the study and development of synthetic systems that mimic the formation, function, or structure of biologically produced substances and materials and biological mechanisms and processes.
- 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.
- bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
- biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bisociation — the association of one idea with two different contexts
- bisociative — relating to bisociation
- bitter dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- bivouacking — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- 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.