13-letter words containing a, t, s, b, c, o
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- collaborators — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
- combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
- combativeness — The state of being combative.
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- compatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibilist — (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
- confiscatable — confiscable
- console table — a table with one or more curved legs of bracket-like construction, designed to stand against a wall
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- constrainable — able to be constrained
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- contabescence — (of an anther) the condition of being unable to produce pollen
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrabandist — a person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
- contrabassist — Someone who plays the contrabass.
- contrabassoon — the largest instrument in the oboe family, pitched an octave below the bassoon; double bassoon
- controllables — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
- counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
- cross the bar — to die
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- exacerbations — Plural form of exacerbation.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- incompatibles — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- incontestable — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
- incontestably — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
- insociability — the state or quality of being insociable
- isobarometric — isobaric
- jacob's staff — Astronomy. cross-staff.
- lactobacillus — any long, slender, rod-shaped, anaerobic bacterium of the genus Lactobacillus, that produces large amounts of lactic acid in the fermentation of carbohydrates, especially in milk.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- malabar coast — a region along the entire SW coast of India, extending from the Arabian Sea inland to the Western Ghats.
- megaloblastic — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- microhabitats — Plural form of microhabitat.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject