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  • boringly — causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
  • bornholm — an island in the Baltic Sea, south of Sweden: administratively part of Denmark. Chief town: Rønne. Pop: 43 956 (2003 est). Area: 588 sq km (227 sq miles)
  • bornitic — of or relating to bornite
  • borodino — a village in E central Russia, about 110 km (70 miles) west of Moscow: scene of a battle (1812) in which Napoleon defeated the Russians but irreparably weakened his army
  • borrelia — a genus of helical spirochete bacteria, some causing relapsing fever
  • borrower — A borrower is a person or organization that borrows money.
  • borujerd — city in WC Iran: pop. 201,000
  • bosporus — strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara: c. 20 mi (32 km) long
  • boxthorn — matrimony vine
  • boyd orr — John, 1st Baron Boyd Orr of Brechin Mearns. 1880–1971, Scottish biologist; director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization: Nobel peace prize 1949
  • bradford — an industrial city in N England, in Bradford unitary authority, West Yorkshire: a centre of the woollen industry from the 14th century and of the worsted trade from the 18th century; university (1966). Pop: 293 717 (2001)
  • branford — a town in S Connecticut.
  • buck for — If you are bucking for something, you are working very hard to get it.
  • buckhorn — horn from a buck, used for knife handles, etc
  • bullhorn — A bullhorn is a device for making your voice sound louder in the open air.
  • busywork — Busywork is work that is intended to keep someone occupied and is not completely necessary.
  • buzzword — A buzzword is a word or expression that has become fashionable in a particular field and is being used a lot by the media.
  • cagework — openwork resembling the bars of a cage
  • call for — If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
  • calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
  • calorist — a believer in caloric theory
  • calorize — to coat (a ferrous metal) by spraying with aluminium powder and then heating
  • camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
  • camwhore — a person who performs sexual or titillating acts in front of a webcam for the gratification of online customers who reward him or her with money or gifts
  • canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
  • canework — strips of cane that are interlaced and used in cane chairs or the like.
  • canorous — tuneful; melodious
  • cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
  • capeador — a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.
  • capework — the use of the cape by the matador
  • car port — A car port is a shelter for cars which is attached to a house and consists of a flat roof supported on pillars.
  • carborne — travelling by car
  • careworn — A person who looks careworn looks worried, tired, and unhappy.
  • carports — Plural form of carport.
  • casework — Casework is social work that involves actually dealing or working with the people who need help.
  • caseworm — any of various insect larvae that build protective cases about their bodies
  • cat door — a small door or flap in a larger door through which a cat can pass
  • catagory — Misspelling of category.
  • cataphor — a word that refers to or stands for another word used later
  • category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
  • catworks — the machinery used on a drilling platform
  • caveator — a person who enters a caveat
  • cavicorn — (of sheep, goats, etc) having hollow horns as distinct from the solid antlers of deer
  • cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.
  • cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
  • cefaclor — a cephalosporin antibiotic, C 15 H 14 ClN 3 O 4 , used in the treatment of infections.
  • censored — Having had objectionable content removed.
  • chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
  • chamorro — a member of one of the indigenous peoples of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands
  • chaordic — (of a system, organization, or natural process) governed by or combining elements of both chaos and order
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