10-letter words containing c
- boca raton — city in SE Fla., near Fort Lauderdale: pop. 75,000
- boccherini — Luigi (luˈidʒi). 1743–1805, Italian composer and cellist
- bocconcini — small bite-sized pieces of mozzarella cheese
- body check — the fair block of an opponent who has the puck by bumping with the body, shoulder to hip, from the front or side
- body clock — Your body clock is the internal biological mechanism which causes your body to automatically behave in particular ways at particular times of the day.
- body count — the number of people killed
- body punch — a blow to the body of an opponent
- body scrub — a product designed to exfoliate the skin
- body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
- bog orchid — an orchid, Hammarbya (or Malaxis) paludosa, growing in sphagnum bogs in the N hemisphere. It has greenish-yellow flowers and its leaves bear a fringe of tiny bulbils
- bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
- bold-faced — confident or impudent
- bollocking — a severe telling-off; dressing-down
- bomb ketch — Nautical. a ketch-rigged vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries, carrying heavy mortars for firing bombs.
- bomb lance — a harpoon fitted with an explosive head.
- bomb scare — an alarm arising from the fear that a bomb may have been left in a place
- bon marche — a bargain.
- bone black — a fine charcoal made by burning animal bones in closed containers: used as a pigment, in refining sugar, etc.
- bone china — Bone china is a kind of thin china that contains powdered bone.
- boniface i — Saint, died a.d. 422, pope 418–422.
- boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
- bonus pack — anything sold with a product and marketed as a useful and free extra
- book cover — the cover of a book
- book match — a match in or from a matchbook.
- book price — the value of a car as defined by the manufacturers or other accredited organization
- boondocker — combat boot.
- boot block — (operating system) A program on a hard disk, floppy disk or other media, which is loaded when the computer is turned on or rebooted and which controls the next phase of loading the actual operating system. The loading and execution of the boot block is usually controlled by firmware in ROM or PROM. It may be at some fixed location possibly or may be pointed to by the master boot record.
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- booty call — a meeting arranged for the purpose of having sex
- boric acid — a white soluble weakly acid crystalline solid used in the manufacture of heat-resistant glass and porcelain enamels, as a fireproofing material, and as a mild antiseptic. Formula: H3BO3
- boss cocky — a boss or person in power
- botticelli — Sandro (ˈsandro), original name Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi. 1444–1510, Italian (Florentine) painter, illustrator, and engraver, noted for the graceful outlines and delicate details of his mythological and religious paintings
- bottle cap — a device for closing or sealing a bottle, especially a metal cover with a cork gasket fitting tightly over the mouth of a glass or plastic bottle, held in place by crimping the edge of the cap over the lip or flange of the bottle.
- bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
- bottom ice — anchor ice.
- boucicault — Dion (ˈdaɪɒn), real name Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot. 1822–90, Irish dramatist and actor. His plays include London Assurance (1841), The Octoroon (1859), and The Shaughran (1874)
- bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
- bouncedown — an occasion of restarting play by the umpire bouncing the ball
- bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
- bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- box camera — a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder
- box canyon — a canyon with vertical or almost vertical walls
- box clever — to behave in a careful and cunning way
- box column — a hollow wooden column, as for a porch, usually having a rectangular cross section.
- box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
- box office — The box office in a theatre, cinema, or concert hall is the place where the tickets are sold.
- box social — a fund-raising event at which donated box meals are auctioned
- box wrench — a wrench with a completely enclosed head, used to hold and turn nuts and bolts