8-letter words containing d, c, b
- die back — If a plant dies back, its leaves die but its roots remain alive.
- disbench — to remove (a barrister or judge) from the membership of the governing body of one of the Inns of Court
- dobchick — Alternative form of dabchick.
- drawback — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- dropback — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- duckbill — platypus.
- dulbecco — Renato [ruh-nah-toh;; Italian re-nah-taw] /rəˈnɑ toʊ;; Italian rɛˈnɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1914–2012, U.S. biologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
- educable — capable of being educated.
- educible — Able to be elicited or evoked.
- embraced — Hold (someone) closely in one's arms, esp. as a sign of affection.
- feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
- flockbed — a bed with a mattress stuffed with wool refuse, shearings of cloth, or the like.
- foldback — (in multitrack recording) a process for returning a signal to a performer instantly
- gladbeck — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W central Germany.
- hardback — A book with a solid binding.
- holdback — the iron or strap on the shaft of a horse-drawn vehicle to which the breeching of the harness is attached, enabling the horse to hold back or to back the vehicle.
- icebound — held fast or hemmed in by ice; frozen in: an icebound ship.
- jochebed — the mother of Aaron and Moses. Ex. 6:20.
- laidback — Alternative spelling of laid-back.
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- molybdic — of or containing molybdenum, especially in the trivalent or hexavalent states, as molybdic acid, H 2 MoO 4 .
- mud crab — a large edible crab, Scylla serrata, of Australian mangrove regions
- mudbrick — A brick made from mud or clay mixed with straw and dried in the sun rather than being fired.
- neckband — a band of cloth at the neck of a garment.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- objected — anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
- obscured — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obtected — (obsolete) covered; protected.
- pc board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- redbrick — of, relating to, or associated with a redbrick university.
- reedbuck — any of several yellowish African antelopes of the genus Redunca, living near lakes and rivers, the male of which has short, forward-curving horns.
- ricebird — Southern U.S. the bobolink.
- rubicund — red or reddish; ruddy: a rubicund complexion.
- scabbard — a sheath for a sword or the like.
- scabland — rough, barren, volcanic topography with thin soils and little vegetation.
- scombrid — any fish of the family Scombridae, comprising the mackerels and tunas.
- scrubbed — stunted; scrubby.
- subacrid — slightly acrid
- subchord — a part of a chord
- tickbird — any of various birds that feed on ticks, as an oxpecker.
- trackbed — the foundation on which railway tracks are laid
- tribadic — lesbian (def 5).
- unbacked — without backing or support.
- uncombed — If someone's hair is uncombed, it is untidy because it has not been brushed or combed.