8-letter words containing o, t, c
- bancroft — George1800-91; U.S. historian & statesman
- basecoat — a first coat of a surfacing material, as paint.
- beclothe — to put clothes on (someone)
- bellcote — a small roofed structure for bells
- benchtop — a flat surface area
- biolytic — able to destroy life.
- biotical — pertaining to life.
- biscotti — hard, plain, bar-shaped cookies containing almonds or hazelnuts
- biscotto — a thin Italian biscuit
- bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
- bitstock — the handle or stock of a tool into which a drilling bit is fixed
- blackout — A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
- blacktop — Blacktop is a hard black substance which is used as a surface for roads.
- bloncket — of a blue-grey colour
- blotched — Something that is blotched has blotches on it.
- bluecoat — a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
- boatneck — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
- boot-cut — (of trousers) slightly flared at the bottom of the legs
- bootjack — a device that grips the heel of a boot to enable the foot to be withdrawn easily
- bootlace — A bootlace is a long thin cord which is used to fasten a boot.
- bootlick — to seek favour by servile or ingratiating behaviour towards (someone, esp someone in authority); toady
- boracite — a white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate and chloride in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Mg3ClB7O13
- bornitic — of or relating to bornite
- botanica — a shop that sells herbs, charms, and other items associated with alternative medicine or magic
- botch-up — A botch-up is the same as a botch.
- botchery — an instance of botched workmanship
- botching — to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
- bowditch — Nathaniel1773-1838; U.S. mathematician, astronomer, & navigator
- box coat — a plain short coat that hangs loosely from the shoulders
- bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- brockton — city in E Mass., near Boston: pop. 94,000
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- c ration — a canned ration used in the field in WWII
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabotage — coastal navigation or shipping, esp within the borders of one country
- cacation — (archaic) excretion.
- cachalot — sperm whale
- cachepot — an ornamental container for a flowerpot
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- califont — a gas water heater
- call out — If you call someone out, you order or request that they come to help, especially in an emergency.
- call-out — an act or instance of calling out.
- callisto — a nymph who attracted the love of Zeus and was changed into a bear by Hera. Zeus then set her in the sky as the constellation Ursa Major
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- calotype — an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
- calthrop — any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.