11-letter words containing a, l, b, c
- confiscable — subject or liable to confiscation or seizure
- conformable — corresponding in character; similar
- conformably — With or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.
- confusables — Plural form of confusable.
- conglobated — in the form of a globe or ball
- connectable — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
- connubially — As in marriage.
- conquerable — Capable of being conquered or subdued.
- conservable — capable of being conserved: conservable fruits.
- construable — that can be construed
- consumables — goods intended to be bought, used, and replaced, esp materials needed for computers and photocopiers
- contactable — able to be communicated with
- containable — to hold or include within its volume or area: This glass contains water. This paddock contains our best horses.
- contentable — satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or anything else.
- contestable — a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize.
- contrivable — Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
- contubernal — occupying the same tent
- conversable — easy or pleasant to talk to
- convictable — to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial: to convict a prisoner of a felony.
- copaiba oil — a colorless, yellowish, or bluish liquid having a pepperlike odor and bitter taste, obtained from copaiba by distillation: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes and soaps.
- coral bells — a perennial, ornamental alumroot (Heuchera sanguinea) native to SW North America, with racemes of drooping pink or white flowers
- corbel arch — a construction like an arch but composed of masonry courses corbeled until they meet.
- corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
- core barrel — (in a core drill) a length of pipe for holding rock cores while they are being extracted from the drill hole.
- correctable — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
- coxcombical — of or resembling the characteristic nature of a coxcomb
- crab nebula — the expanding remnant of the supernova observed in 1054 ad, lying in the constellation Taurus at an approximate distance of 6500 light years
- crab-plover — a black and white wading bird, Dromas ardeola, of the northern and western shores of the Indian Ocean.
- cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
- cranesbills — Plural form of cranesbill.
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- culebra cut — former name of Gaillard Cut.
- culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- cyclebabble — (jargon) Advertising raw clock speed, instead of bus speed. A Tandy Color Computer ran at exactly the same speed, but clock speed was specified as bus speed, 0.895 MHz, leaving the impression that it was 4 times slower. Actually it ran a little faster with a more efficient instruction set. If the actual clock rate had been specified on a CoCo 3, it would have been 14.32 MHz, although the bus speed was still 0.895 MHz. That high speed also generated video, color, and hidden refresh timing. 100 MHz computers are running at bus speeds of around 25 MHz.
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- db2 catalog — (database) An IBM DB2 system table listing all objects in a database installation including hosts, servers, databases, tables and many more. Commands are provided to manage the catalog, e.g. db2 catalog database mydatabase on /databases/mydatabase to add a database reference.
- de la beche — Henry. 1796–1855, English geologist. His work led to the founding of the Geological Survey (1835)
- debauchedly — In a debauched manner.
- deflectable — able to be deflected
- delectables — Plural form of delectable.
- depreciable — able to be depreciated for tax deduction
- descrambled — Simple past tense and past participle of descramble.
- descrambler — unscrambler (def 2).
- describable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- discardable — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.