8-letter words containing c, o
- braddock — Edward1695-1755; Brit. general, born in Scotland: commander of the Brit. forces in the French & Indian War
- bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
- broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broacher — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- brocaded — fabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- broccoli — Broccoli is a vegetable with green stalks and green or purple tops.
- brochure — A brochure is a magazine or thin book with pictures that gives you information about a product or service.
- brockage — a defect or fault imposed on a coin during its minting.
- brockton — city in E Mass., near Boston: pop. 94,000
- bromance — A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men.
- bromidic — ordinary; dull
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- broncho- — indicating or relating to the bronchi
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- bucchero — an Etruscan black ceramic ware, often ornamented with incised geometrical patterns or figures carved in relief.
- buck for — If you are bucking for something, you are working very hard to get it.
- buckaroo — a cowboy
- buckhorn — horn from a buck, used for knife handles, etc
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- bucolics — a pastoral poem.
- bucovina — Bukovina
- buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
- bullocky — the driver of a team of bullocks
- buncombe — bunkum
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- c ration — a canned ration used in the field in WWII
- c-prolog — (language, Prolog) An implementation of Prolog in C, developed by F. Pereira <[email protected]> et al in July 1982. It had no garbage collection. It is not in the public domain.
- c-scroll — an ornamental motif in the shape of a C , used chiefly on furniture.
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.
- cab-over — a truck tractor or other vehicle in which the cab is located over the engine.
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- caboceer — (formerly) an African native appointed by his leader to supply European slave traders with slaves
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- cabochon — a smooth domed gem, polished but unfaceted
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- cabooses — Plural form of caboose.
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cabotage — coastal navigation or shipping, esp within the borders of one country
- cabrillo — Juan Rodríguez [rod-ree-ges] /rɒdˈri gɛs/ (Show IPA), (Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho) 1499?–1543, Spanish explorer, born in Portugal: discovered California.
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- cacation — (archaic) excretion.
- cachalot — sperm whale
- cachepot — an ornamental container for a flowerpot
- cacodoxy — an erroneous doctrine or heterodoxy
- cacology — a bad choice of words; faulty speech