12-letter words containing a, b, c, o
- connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
- conscionable — acceptable to one's conscience
- conscionably — being in conformity with one's conscience; just.
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
- contabescent — unable to produce pollen
- contaminable — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- contemplable — able to be contemplated
- contemptable — Contemptible.
- contrabasses — Plural form of contrabass.
- contrabbasso — a double bass
- contractable — capable of being contracted
- contractible — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- contrastable — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
- contributary — contributory
- controllable — If something is controllable you are able to control or influence it.
- controllably — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- conurbations — Plural form of conurbation.
- coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
- coralberries — Plural form of coralberry.
- corbel table — a horizontal masonry construction, as a cornice or part of a wall, supported on corbels or on arches supported on corbels.
- corbel vault — a structure having the form of a vault but constructed on the principle of a corbel arch.
- corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
- cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
- corner table — a table of the 18th century having a triangular top with a triangular drop leaf of the same size.
- correlatable — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- corroborable — able to be corroborated
- corroborated — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
- corroborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corroborate.
- corroborator — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
- costume ball — a fancy dress ball
- coulrophobia — an abnormal fear of clowns.
- countability — the fact of being countable
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- counterbrace — a rope on the leeward side of a ship, controlling the position of the fore-topsail
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- crack a book — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cradleboards — Plural form of cradleboard.
- cristobalite — a white microcrystalline mineral consisting of silica and occurring in volcanic rocks. Formula: SiO2
- cross-bearer — a person who carries or holds a cross, especially in a religious procession.
- crossability — the quality of being crossable
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
- customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier