10-letter words containing bo
- carbon tax — A carbon tax is a tax on the burning of fuels such as coal, gas, and oil. Its aim is to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.
- carbonados — Plural form of carbonado.
- carbonated — Carbonated drinks are drinks that contain small bubbles of carbon dioxide.
- carbonates — a salt or ester of carbonic acid.
- carbondale — a city in SW Illinois.
- carbonette — a ball of compressed coal dust used as fuel
- carbonised — Alternative spelling of carbonized.
- carbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of carbonize.
- carbonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carbonize.
- carbonless — containing no carbon
- carbonnade — a thick stew of beef, onions, herbs, etc., cooked in beer.
- carbonylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the carbonyl group.
- carborexic — a person who is regarded as being obsessed with reducing their carbon footprint
- carboxylic — containing or pertaining to the carboxyl group or the carboxyl radical
- cardboards — Plural form of cardboard.
- cardboardy — like cardboard, esp in stiffness, texture, or taste
- cash bonus — an extra amount of money given to someone for doing something good, over and above the amount that is normally paid for that achievement
- cast about — to make a mental or visual search
- catabolise — to cause (a nutrient or other substance) to undergo catabolism.
- catabolism — a metabolic process in which complex molecules are broken down into simple ones with the release of energy; destructive metabolism
- catabolite — a substance produced as a result of catabolism
- catabolize — to subject to catabolism
- chairborne — having an administrative or desk job rather than a more active one
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- chalkboard — A chalkboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Chalkboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
- chatterbot — chatbot
- chatterbox — A chatterbox is someone who talks a lot.
- cheboksary — a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)
- checkbooks — Plural form of checkbook.
- cheekbones — Plural form of cheekbone.
- chequebook — a book containing detachable blank cheques and issued by a bank or building society to holders of cheque accounts
- cherry-bob — a pair of cherries joined at the end of their stems.
- chessboard — A chessboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing chess.
- chimborazo — an extinct volcano in central Ecuador, in the Andes: the highest peak in Ecuador. Height: 6267 m (20 561 ft)
- chorus boy — a male singer or dancer of the chorus of a musical comedy, vaudeville show, etc.
- cibophobia — The fear of, or aversion to, eating or food.
- clapboards — Plural form of clapboard.
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
- class book — a book published by members of a school or college class, containing pictures of students and teachers, an account of student activities, etc.
- clipboards — Plural form of clipboard.
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- coach bolt — a large round-headed bolt used esp to secure wood to masonry
- cockleboat — cockboat.
- cokebottle — (character, humour) /kohk'bot-l/ Any unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the "control-meta-cokebottle" commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained about the "altmode-altmode-cokebottle" commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, "cokebottle" was used less, but was often used to describe weird or non-intuitive keystrokes. The OSF/Motif window manager, "mwm" keystroke for switching to the default keybindings and behaviour is control-meta-bang. Since exclamation mark might be thought to look like a Coke bottle, Motif hackers referred to this keystroke as "cokebottle". See also quadruple bucky.
- collarbone — Your collarbones are the two long bones which run from throat to your shoulders.
- collembola — Any of many minute wingless arthropods of subclass Collembola; a springtail.
- come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
- comic book — A comic book is a magazine that contains stories told in pictures.
- corkboards — Plural form of corkboard.
- corn borer — the larva of a European moth (Ostrinia nubilalis), now a destructive pest in the U.S., feeding on corn and other plants