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13-letter words containing i, c

  • body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
  • 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.
  • bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • bolting cloth — a sturdy fabric, usually of fine silk or nylon mesh, used chiefly in serigraphy, embroidery, and as a foundation fabric for wigs.
  • bombastically — (of speech, writing, etc.) high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious.
  • bona vacantia — unclaimed goods
  • bone-chilling — extremely cold
  • bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
  • boniface viii — original name Benedict Caetano. ?1234–1303, pope (1294–1303)
  • book scorpion — any of various small arachnids of the order Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions), esp Chelifer cancroides, which are sometimes found in old books, etc
  • booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
  • boolean logic — (logic)   A logic based on Boolean algebra.
  • boraginaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Boraginaceae, a family of temperate and tropical typically hairy-leaved flowering plants that includes forget-me-not, lungwort, borage, comfrey, and heliotrope
  • 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
  • botryomycosis — a disease, usually of horses, caused by a bacterial infection (usually, Staphylococcus aureus) producing tumorous growths esp. after castration or a wound or injury
  • bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
  • bouillon cube — A bouillon cube is a solid cube made from dried meat or vegetable juices and other flavorings. Bouillon cubes are used to add flavor to dishes such as stews and soups.
  • bouncing bomb — a bomb used by the RAF in World War II, designed to bounce along water
  • bowling match — a game of bowls
  • brace and bit — a hand tool for boring holes, consisting of a cranked handle into which a drilling bit is inserted
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brachiosaurus — a dinosaur of the genus Brachiosaurus, up to 30 metres long: the largest land animal ever known
  • brachycranial — brachycephalic
  • braggadocious — boastful
  • brain scanner — a machine used to perform brain scans
  • brain-picking — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
  • branch office — the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
  • branch rickey — (Wesley) Branch, 1881–1965, U.S. baseball executive.
  • brassicaceous — belonging to the plant family Brassicaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Cruciferae.
  • break dancing — a style of dance engaged in by youths, involving acrobatic movements, spinning about on the head or shoulders, etc.
  • break service — to win a game in which an opponent is serving
  • break the ice — to relieve shyness or reserve, esp between strangers
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • brie (cheese) — a ripened soft, white cheese made in France, or a similar cheese made elsewhere
  • brilliant cut — a cut for gems
  • brilliant-cut — a cut intended to enhance the brilliance of a gem with the least possible sacrifice of weight, characterized by a form resembling two pyramids set base to base, truncated so as to give a broad table and a very small culet, and having from 18 to 104 facets, 58 being typical.
  • broca-aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
  • broccoli raab — a plant (Brassica rapa ruvo) of the crucifer family with close clusters of small flowers and dark green, somewhat bitter leaves cooked as a vegetable
  • broccoli rabe — a plant, Brassica rapa ruvo, of which the slightly bitter, dark-green leaves and clustered flower buds are eaten as a vegetable.
  • bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
  • bronchiolitis — a condition in which the small airways in the lungs become inflamed by a virus. It is most common in infants, who become breathless in severe cases. Recurrent attacks may lead to asthma
  • brown hickory — a North American hickory tree, Carya glabra
  • buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
  • buck and wing — a boisterous tap dance, derived from Black and Irish clog dances
  • buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
  • bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
  • bureaucratist — a believer in bureaucracy
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