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11-letter words containing i, b, c

  • bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
  • bolt-action — (of a rifle) equipped with a manually operated sliding bolt.
  • bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
  • boniface ii — pope a.d. 530–532.
  • boniface ivSaint, pope a.d. 608–615.
  • boniface ix — (Pietro Tomacelli) died 1404, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1389–1404.
  • boniface vi — pope a.d. 896.
  • boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bootlicking — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • boric oxide — a colorless crystalline compound, B 2 O 3 , used in metallurgy and chemical analysis.
  • boring clam — piddock
  • botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • box cornice — a hollow cornice of boards and moldings nailed to rafters and lookouts.
  • box-ticking — the process of satisfying bureaucratic administrative requirements rather than assessing the actual merit of something
  • brachialgia — pain in the nerves of the upper arm.
  • brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
  • brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
  • brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
  • brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
  • bradycardia — an abnormally low rate of heartbeat
  • bradycardic — a slow heartbeat rate, usually less than 60 beats per minute.
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • braggadocio — vain empty boasting
  • brahmachari — a student of the Vedas, especially one committed to brahmacharya.
  • brahminical — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
  • brain candy — something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance
  • brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
  • brain coral — a stony coral of the genus Meandrina, in which the polyps lie in troughlike thecae resembling the convoluted surface of a human brain
  • branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
  • branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
  • branchiform — shaped like a gill.
  • branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
  • bratticings — a series of temporary wooden housings erected on top of a wall, esp a castle wall
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
  • brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
  • breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
  • bric-a-brac — Bric-a-brac is a number of small ornamental objects of no great value.
  • brick-built — made of bricks
  • bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
  • brickmaking — the activity of making bricks
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bride price — (in some societies) money, property, or services given by a bridegroom to the kinsmen of his bride in order to establish his rights over the woman
  • bridge deck — a deck on top of a bridge house; flying bridge.
  • bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • bromic acid — a colourless unstable water-soluble liquid used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: HBrO3
  • bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
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