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- bourne shell — (sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts. There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?]
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- broken chord — a chord played as an arpeggio
- broken heart — If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
- broken-check — a check pattern in which the rectangular shapes are slightly irregular.
- bromomethane — methyl bromide.
- bronchogenic — bronchial in origin
- bronchoscope — an instrument for examining and providing access to the interior of the bronchial tubes
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- burner phone — a disposable cell phone with prepaid service, often used with the intent to temporarily obscure the true identity or contact information of the user: Members of the cartel used burner phones to evade federal surveillance. I always give out the number from my burner phone when I’m going on a blind date.
- camera phone — A camera phone is a mobile phone that can also take photographs.
- cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
- candleholder — a candlestick
- carbocholine — carbachol.
- centrosphere — the portion of the centrosome surrounding the centriole; center of an aster
- chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
- chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
- chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
- chairpersons — Plural form of chairperson.
- change color — to become pale
- change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
- change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
- changearound — the act of changing to a different position
- channel iron — a rolled-steel bar with a U-shaped cross section
- channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
- charnelhouse — Alternative form of charnel house.
- cheesemonger — a person dealing in cheese, butter, etc
- chemosensory — sensitive to chemical stimuli, as the sensory nerve endings that mediate taste and smell.
- cherrystones — Plural form of cherrystone.
- chicharrones — A Hispanic dish; made of fried pork rinds.
- chiffonniere — a worktable of the 18th century, having several tiers of shallow drawers.
- chiliahedron — a thousand-sided polyhedron
- chimney rock — a column of rock rising above the level of the surrounding area or isolated on the face of a steep slope.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- chlorenchyma — plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chlorophyll
- chloroethane — ethyl chloride.
- chloroethene — vinyl chloride.
- chlorophenol — any of three isomers having the formula C 6 H 5 ClO, derived from chlorine and phenol, used chiefly as intermediates in the manufacture of dyes.
- chlorospinel — a variety of spinel used as a gem, colored grass-green by the presence of copper.
- choir-screen — a partition or a screen in a church that acts as a divide between the choir and the aisles
- cholericness — The state or quality of being choleric.
- chondriosome — mitochondrion
- chondrophore — a medusoid hydrozoan that resembles a jellyfish
- chord change — a movement from one chord to another
- chordophones — Plural form of chordophone.
- christophene — chayote.
- chrome green — any green pigment made by mixing lead chromate with Prussian blue