13-letter words containing d, o, c
- bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
- bird of peace — a dove.
- bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
- black diamond — coal (sense 1)
- bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
- block diagram — a diagram showing the interconnections between the parts of an industrial process
- blood alcohol — alcohol that is circulating in the blood
- blood glucose — Blood glucose is glucose (= a type of sugar) in the bloodstream.
- blood product — a pharmaceutical product made from blood, such as Factor VIII
- bloodcurdling — terrifying; horrifying
- bloody caesar — a drink consisting of vodka, juice made from clams and tomatoes, and usually Worcester sauce and hot pepper sauce
- boarding card — A boarding card is a card which a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
- bodice ripper — You can refer to a film or novel which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes as a bodice ripper, especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
- bodice-ripper — a modern Gothic novel or historical romance, usually in paperback format, featuring at least one passionate love scene, characteristically one in which the heroine vainly resists submitting to the villain or hero.
- body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- body stocking — A body stocking is a piece of clothing that covers the whole of someone's body and fits tightly. Body stockings are often worn by dancers.
- body-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points at the centers of the unit cells.
- bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- border collie — a medium-sized breed of collie with a silky usually black-and-white coat: used mainly as sheepdogs
- border police — the force in charge of policing a border
- boroglyceride — any compound containing boric acid and glycerol, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
- boron carbide — a black extremely hard inert substance having a high capture cross section for thermal neutrons. It is used as an abrasive, refractory, and in control rods in nuclear reactors. Formula: B4C
- bounce around — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- boundary scan — The use of scan registers to capture state from device input and output pins. IEEE Standard 1149.1-1990 describes the international standard implementation (sometimes called JTAG after the Joint Test Action Group which began the standardisation work).
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- braggadocious — boastful
- breech-loader — a firearm that is loaded at the breech
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- broad hatchet — a hatchet with a broad cutting edge.
- bûche de noël — a French Christmas cake made from a thin layer of spongecake that is rolled up and frosted so as to resemble a decorative Yule log
- butanoic acid — kind of acid
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- cacodyl group — the univalent group (CH 3) 2 As−, derived from arsine.
- calcium oxide — a white crystalline base used in the production of calcium hydroxide and bleaching powder and in the manufacture of glass, paper, and steel. Formula: CaO
- calcium-oxide — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- call to order — to request to be quiet, as to start (a meeting)
- candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
- cannon fodder — If someone in authority regards people they are in charge of as cannon fodder, they do not care if these people are harmed or lost in the course of their work.
- cape coloured — (formerly, in South Africa) a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethnic origin
- cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
- cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white flowers.
- capello index — a player rating website backed by Fabio Capello in which marks are awarded to football players in the top teams according to their performance in key skills of the game
- capital goods — Capital goods are used to make other products. Compare consumer goods.
- capsaicinoids — Plural form of capsaicinoid.
- carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- carbolic acid — Carbolic acid or carbolic is a liquid that is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic.
- carbolic-acid — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.