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11-letter words containing o, c, u

  • blue collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
  • blue-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • body colour — a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white
  • bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
  • bolt cutter — a tool for cutting bolts, wire, etc, typically with very long handles and short blades, with compound hinges
  • bombay duck — a teleost fish, Harpodon nehereus, that resembles and is related to the lizard fishes: family Harpodontidae. It is eaten dried with curry dishes as a savoury
  • bonus stock — shares of stock, usually common, given by a corporation as a bonus with the purchase of another class of security
  • bottle club — a so-called club in which patrons, nominally members, are served liquor from bottles purportedly belonging to them, without regard to liquor control laws
  • bounce back — If you bounce back after a bad experience, you return very quickly to your previous level of success, enthusiasm, or activity.
  • bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
  • brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
  • breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
  • bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
  • brood pouch — a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch
  • 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
  • brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
  • brute force — physical strength, power
  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • bucolically — of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
  • bumper crop — large harvest
  • bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
  • bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
  • bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
  • 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.
  • butenedioic — designating a type of acid
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
  • cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
  • cactus moth — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, native to South America and introduced into Australia to control prickly pear cactus, on which the larvae feed.
  • cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
  • cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
  • calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
  • calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
  • calculation — A calculation is something that you think about and work out mathematically. Calculation is the process of working something out mathematically.
  • calculators — Plural form of calculator.
  • calculatory — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • calico bush — mountain laurel
  • californium — a metallic transuranic element artificially produced from curium. Symbol: Cf; atomic no: 98; half-life of most stable isotope, 251Cf: 800 years (approx.)
  • call around — If you call around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
  • callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
  • callousness — made hard; hardened.
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