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10-letter words containing c

  • bronchitic — acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining of the bronchial tubes, caused by respiratory infection or exposure to bronchial irritants, as cigarette smoke.
  • bronchitis — Bronchitis is an illness like a very bad cough, in which your bronchial tubes become sore and infected.
  • broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
  • brown coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
  • brown coat — arriccio.
  • brown rice — unpolished rice, in which the grains retain the outer yellowish-brown layer (bran)
  • bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
  • bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
  • bubonocele — an incomplete hernia in the groin; partial inguinal hernia
  • buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
  • bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
  • buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
  • buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
  • buck fever — nervous excitement felt by inexperienced hunters at the approach of game
  • buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
  • buck teeth — upper front teeth which stick out
  • bucket out — to empty out with or as if with a bucket
  • buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
  • buckjumper — an untamed horse
  • buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
  • bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
  • buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
  • buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
  • buffy coat — a yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.
  • bulbaceous — bulbous
  • bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
  • bull block — a machine for drawing wire in which the wire is pulled through the dies by a power-operated drum.
  • bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
  • bullbucker — a foreman who supervises fallers and buckers.
  • bumper car — A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground.
  • bumsucking — obsequious behaviour; toadying
  • bunch pink — sweet william.
  • bunchberry — a dwarf variety of dogwood native to North America, Cornus canadensis, having red berries
  • bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
  • bunny chow — a dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with curry
  • buononcini — Bononcini.
  • bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
  • burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
  • burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
  • bureaucrat — Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly.
  • bust chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
  • by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
  • byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
  • c terminus — the carboxyl end of a protein molecule.
  • c.i.f.c.i. — cost, insurance, freight, commission, and interest (included in the price quoted)
  • cabalistic — of or relating to the cabala.
  • cabanatuan — city in SC Luzon, in the Philippines: pop. 173,000
  • cabin crew — The cabin crew on an aircraft are the people whose job is to look after the passengers.
  • cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
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