11-letter words containing s, c, o
- barracootas — Plural form of barracoota.
- barracoutas — Plural form of barracouta.
- basic cobol — (language) A subset of COBOL from COBOL-60 standards.
- basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
- bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
- beach house — a holiday house overlooking a beach
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- below decks — If someone or something is below decks, they are inside a ship in the part of it that is underneath the deck.
- belt course — an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall
- belt-course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
- betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
- biblioclasm — a person who mutilates or destroys books.
- biblioclast — One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
- bicephalous — having two heads
- big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
- biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
- biocoenosis — a diverse community inhabiting a single biotope
- biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
- bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
- biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
- biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
- biologistic — relating to biologism
- biomimetics — the study and development of synthetic systems that mimic the formation, function, or structure of biologically produced substances and materials and biological mechanisms and processes.
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
- biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bisociation — the association of one idea with two different contexts
- bisociative — relating to bisociation
- black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
- black goods — electronic goods which are housed in black or dark casings, such as televisions, CD players, etc
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastocoele — the segmentation cavity of a developing ovum or of the blastula
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
- bobby socks — Bobby socks or bobbysox are short socks worn by girls or women.
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- 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.
- bonus stock — shares of stock, usually common, given by a corporation as a bonus with the purchase of another class of security
- 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
- boston crab — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler seizes both or one of his opponent's legs, turns him face downwards, and exerts pressure over his back
- bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
- bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw