Scrabble words; B, C
Jan. 18th, 2006 03:06 pm- bargee: n a bargeman
- barong: n a long, broad, leaf-shaped knife used as both weapon and tool by the Moros of the Philippines
- bathyal: adj relating to regions of the ocean bottom between the sublittoral and abyssal zones, from depths of 200 to 4,000 metres
- bey: n a provincial governor in the Ottoman Empire
- beylic: n the territory ruled by a bey
- bikie: n a biker (Australian)
- bohea: n a black Chinese tea, originally the choicest grade but later an inferior variety
- bort, bortz: n poorly crystallized diamonds used for industrial cutting and abrasion
- boscage: n a mass of trees or shrubs; a thicket
- bosky: adj having an abundance of bushes, shrubs or trees; relating to the woods
- buhl: n pieces of brass, tortoiseshell, etc. cut to make a pattern and used as decorative inlays esp. on furniture
- buhr: n a burr; a protruding, ragged edge raised on the surface of metal during drilling, shearing, punching or engraving
- cark: v to burden or be burdened with trouble; worry
- casbah: n a castle or palace in northern Africa; the older or native quarter, or area of a northern African city surrounding the citadel
- cenobite: n a member of a convent or other religious community
- ciborium: n a covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist
- cirrose: adj bearing tendrils, as of a leaf
- clerid n a beetle of the family Cleridae, predacious on other insects, usually brightly coloured or metallic
- conodont: n a member of an extinct group of small primitive fishlike chordates, preserved primarily in the form of their conelike teeth; a fossil tooth of this chordate, widespread and important in dating rock strata
- corium, pl. coria: n dermis; the deep vascular inner layer of skin; armour composed of leather; the elongated, thickened basal portion of the forewing of true bugs
- crofter: n a tenant farmer (Scottish)
- curacy: n the office, duties, or term of office of a curate
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Date: 2006-01-18 11:50 pm (UTC)I suppose I could look it up.
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Date: 2006-01-20 04:24 pm (UTC)