| BON | • Bon prop.n. An indigenous Tibetan religion, in many ways akin to Tibetan Buddhism. • BON n. Initialism of Business Object Notation, notation for high-level object-oriented analysis. • BON n. (Medicine) Initialism of bisphosphonate-associated osteonecrosis of the jaws. |
| EBON | • ebon n. (Now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree. • ebon adj. (Poetic) Made of ebony. • ebon adj. (Poetic) Black in colour. |
| BONBON | • bonbon n. A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy. • bonbon n. (Cooking) A small, spherical savory snack or canapé. • bonbon n. (Australia, South Africa) A Christmas cracker. |
| CARBON | • carbon n. (Uncountable) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form… • carbon n. (Countable) An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it. • carbon n. (Countable, informal) A sheet of carbon paper. |
| GIBBON | • gibbon n. A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by… • Gibbon prop.n. A surname. • GIBBON n. any of various small long-armed tailless arboreal apes of SE Asia. |
| RIBBON | • ribbon n. A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping. • ribbon n. An awareness ribbon. • ribbon n. An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer. |
| BOURBON | • bourbon n. A whiskey distilled from a mixture of grains in which at least 51% is corn, aged in charred, new oak… • bourbon n. A serving of bourbon whiskey. • bourbon n. A Bourbon biscuit. |
| HALOCARBON | • halocarbon n. (Organic chemistry) any compound formally derived from a hydrocarbon by replacing at least one hydrogen… • HALOCARBON n. a compound consisting of carbon and one or more halogens. |
| HYDROCARBON | • hydrocarbon n. (Organic chemistry) A compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen atoms. • HYDROCARBON n. a compound of hydrogen and carbon with nothing else, occurring notably in oil, natural gas and coal. |
| MULTICARBON | • multicarbon adj. Alternative spelling of multi-carbon. • multi-carbon adj. (Organic chemistry) Describing any compound (or ring within a compound) containing more than one carbon atom. • MULTICARBON adj. containing more than one kind of carbon. |
| RADIOCARBON | • radiocarbon n. A radioactive isotope of carbon, especially 146C. • RADIOCARBON n. a radioactive isotope of carbon, specifically, carbon-14. |
| FLUOROCARBON | • fluorocarbon n. (Chemistry) Any derivative of a hydrocarbon in which every hydrogen atom has been replaced by fluorine. • FLUOROCARBON n. any of a series of compounds of fluorine and carbon. |
| PERFLUOROCARBON | • perfluorocarbon n. (Organic chemistry) Any compound formally derived from a hydrocarbon by replacing each hydrogen atom… • PERFLUOROCARBON n. an organic compound in which much of the hydrogen has been replaced by fluorine. |