11-letter words containing o, b, s, c, e
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
- boss screen — a screen image within a computer game that can be activated instantly, designed to hide the evidence of game-playing, esp at work
- bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
- broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
- bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- cablevision — cable television.
- carabineros — Plural form of carabinero.
- carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
- castor bean — the seed of this plant
- catabolites — Plural form of catabolite.
- celebrators — Plural form of celebrator.
- cerebellous — of or relating to the cerebellum
- cerebroside — any glycolipid in which N-acyl sphingosine is combined with glucose or galactose: occurs in the myelin sheaths of nerves
- chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
- cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
- chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
- chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
- chessboxing — a sport in which participants contest alternating rounds of chess and boxing, of four and two minutes respectively
- chifforobes — Plural form of chifforobe.
- chrysoberyl — a rare very hard greenish-yellow mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in orthorhombic crystalline form and occurring in coarse granite: used as a gemstone in the form of cat's eye and alexandrite. Formula: BeAl2O4
- close brace — right brace
- closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
- cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
- cobblestone — Cobblestones are stones with a rounded upper surface which used to be used for making streets.
- cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.
- coenobitism — the practice of coenobites
- cognoscible — able to be known or recognized
- cohabitates — cohabit.
- collapsable — capable of collapsing or of being collapsed, as for carrying or storing.
- collapsible — A collapsible object is designed to be folded flat when it is not being used.
- collarbones — Plural form of collarbone.
- combo store — a combined drugstore and supermarket.
- combustible — A combustible material or gas catches fire and burns easily.
- comestibles — food
- compassable — Capable of being compassed or accomplished.
- compensable — entitled to compensation or capable of being compensated
- compossible — possible in coexistence with something else