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8-letter words containing d, c, b

  • cabstand — a taxi rank
  • cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
  • cambered — Having camber.
  • cambodia — a country in SE Asia: became part of French Indochina in 1887; achieved self-government in 1949 and independence in 1953; civil war (1970–74) ended in victory for the Khmer Rouge, who renamed the country Kampuchea (1975) and carried out extreme-radical political and economic reforms resulting in a considerable reduction of the population; Vietnamese forces ousted the Khmer Rouge in 1979 and set up a pro-Vietnamese government who reverted (1981) to the name Cambodia; after Vietnamese withdrawal in 1989 a peace settlement with exiled factions was followed in 1993 by the adoption of a democratic monarchist constitution restoring Prince Sihanouk to the throne. The country contains the central plains of the Mekong River and the Cardamom Mountains in the SW. Official language: Khmer; French is also widely spoken. Currency: riel. Capital: Phnom Penh. Pop: 15 205 539 (2013 est). Area: 181 000 sq km (69 895 sq miles)
  • camp bed — A camp bed is a small bed that you can fold up.
  • carabids — Plural form of carabid.
  • carboard — (slang) A sport where a rider is towed behind a vehicle. In many ways it encompasses a lot of the aspects of winching in that it has a 'go anywhere' approach. It can in essence occur behind any vehicle assuming that it has sufficient horse power, torque and traction, but the most popular vehicles remain four wheel drives and tractors.
  • carlsbad — a town in S California.
  • catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
  • cb radio — a device that transmits and receives radio signals only within a designated band of frequencies. Compare Citizens Band.
  • chad box — (hardware)   (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
  • chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
  • childbed — the condition of giving birth to a child
  • clubhand — congenital deformity of the hand
  • clubhead — the head of a golf club
  • clubland — A city's clubland is the area that contains all the best nightclubs.
  • cockbird — a male bird
  • codebook — a book containing the means to decipher a code
  • codebtor — a fellow debtor
  • coembody — to embody jointly
  • colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
  • combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
  • combined — A combined effort or attack is made by two or more groups of people at the same time.
  • comorbid — (of an illness or condition) happening at the same time as another illness or condition
  • corbeled — Alternative form of corbelled.
  • could be — It's possible
  • cowbirds — Plural form of cowbird.
  • crabwood — a tropical American meliaceous tree, Carapa guianensis
  • credible — Credible means able to be trusted or believed.
  • credibly — capable of being believed; believable: a credible statement.
  • creekbed — Alternative spelling of creek bed.
  • crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
  • cuboidal — Also, cuboidal. resembling a cube in form.
  • cumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of cumber.
  • cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
  • curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
  • dabchick — any of several small grebes of the genera Podiceps and Podilymbus, such as Podiceps ruficollis of the Old World
  • datacube — Alternative spelling of data cube.
  • debacles — Plural form of debacle.
  • debouche — an outlet, as for troops to debouch through
  • debounce — To remove the small ripple of current that forms when a mechanical switch is pushed in an electrical circuit and makes a series of short contacts.
  • debrecen — a city in E Hungary: seat of the revolutionary government of 1849. Pop: 205 881 (2003 est)
  • december — December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Western calendar.
  • decibels — a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave, equal to 20 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the pressure produced by the sound wave to a reference pressure, usually 0.0002 microbar.
  • delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
  • describe — If you describe a person, object, event, or situation, you say what they are like or what happened.
  • diabasic — Pertaining to, or containing, diabase.
  • diabatic — occurring with an exchange of heat (opposed to adiabatic): a diabatic process.
  • diabetic — Diabetic is also an adjective.
  • diabolic — Diabolic is used to describe things that people think are caused by or belong to the Devil.
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