8-letter words containing b, u, c
- clubface — the face of a golf club
- clubfeet — Plural form of clubfoot.
- clubfoot — If someone has a clubfoot, they are born with a badly twisted foot.
- clubhand — congenital deformity of the hand
- clubhaul — to force (a sailing vessel) onto a new tack, esp in an emergency, by fastening a lee anchor to the lee quarter, dropping the anchor as the vessel comes about, and hauling in the anchor cable to swing the stern to windward
- clubhead — the head of a golf club
- clubland — A city's clubland is the area that contains all the best nightclubs.
- clubmate — A person who is in the same club as another person.
- clubmoss — Alternative spelling of club moss.
- clubroom — a room used by a club for meetings, activities, socializing, etc
- clubroot — a disease of cabbages and related plants, caused by the fungus Plasmodiophora brassicae, in which the roots become thickened and distorted
- clubrush — any rush of the genus Scirpus
- cobhouse — A structure built of cob.
- colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
- columbia — a river in NW North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing through British Columbia, then west to the Pacific. Length: about 1930 km (1200 miles)
- columbic — niobic.
- columbus — a city in central Ohio: the state capital. Pop: 728 432 (2003 est)
- comb out — to remove (tangles or knots) from (the hair) with a comb
- comb-out — a thorough combing or brushing of the hair.
- conurban — of or relating to a conurbation
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- cottabus — (in ancient Greece) a game that was popular among young men at drinking parties and which involved throwing wine into a vessel while uttering the name of a beloved
- could be — It's possible
- coulombs — Plural form of coulomb.
- crucible — A crucible is a pot in which metals or other substances can be melted or heated up to very high temperatures.
- crumbing — Present participle of crumb.
- crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
- crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
- cubature — the determination of the cubic contents of something
- cube van — a van with a cube-shaped storage compartment that is wider and taller than the front of the vehicle
- cubicity — the state or quality of being cubic
- cubicles — A small partitioned-off area of a room, for example one containing a bed in a dwelling or one containing a desk in an office.
- cubicula — a burial chamber, as in catacombs.
- cubiform — having the shape of a cube
- cubistic — a style of painting and sculpture developed in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by an emphasis on formal structure, the reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents, and the organization of the planes of a represented object independently of representational requirements.
- cuboidal — Also, cuboidal. resembling a cube in form.
- cucumber — A cucumber is a long thin vegetable with a hard green skin and wet transparent flesh. It is eaten raw in salads.
- cucurbit — any creeping flowering plant of the mainly tropical and subtropical family Cucurbitaceae, which includes the pumpkin, cucumber, squashes, and gourds
- cue ball — the ball struck by the cue, as distinguished from the object balls
- cui bono — for whose benefit? for what purpose?
- culpable — If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.
- culpably — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
- cumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of cumber.
- cumberer — Someone or something that cumbers.
- cumbrian — of or relating to Cumbria or its inhabitants
- cumbrous — cumbersome
- cumbungi — any of various tall Australian marsh plants of the genus Typha
- cunabula — a cradle
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- curb cut — a small ramp or slope from a sidewalk to a roadway to ease passage for people in wheelchairs, bicyclists, etc.