13-letter words containing b, a, e, l
- carte blanche — If someone gives you carte blanche, they give you the authority to do whatever you think is right.
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
- cause celebre — A cause célèbre is an issue, person, or criminal trial that has attracted a lot of public attention and discussion.
- cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
- cell membrane — a very thin membrane, composed of lipids and protein, that surrounds the cytoplasm of a cell and controls the passage of substances into and out of the cell
- cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
- cerulean blue — a light-blue to strong greenish-blue color.
- chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
- challengeable — a call or summons to engage in any contest, as of skill, strength, etc.
- changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
- channel black — the soot of a natural gas flame, used in paints; fine carbon.
- chargeability — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- chastity belt — a locking beltlike device with a loop designed to go between a woman's legs in order to prevent her from having sexual intercourse
- chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
- child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
- chocolate bar — a block of chocolate
- chocolate-box — Chocolate-box places or images are very pretty but in a boring or conventional way.
- chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
- clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- classic blues — a type of city blues performed by a female singer accompanied by a small group
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clear a table — When you clear a table, you remove things from it that you do not want to be there.
- clearing bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
- clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
- cleavableness — the quality of being cleavable
- cleveland bay — one of the oldest British breeds of clean-legged, light draught farm and carriage horse, originating from Yorkshire
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coaxial cable — a cable consisting of an inner insulated core of stranded or solid wire surrounded by an outer insulated flexible wire braid, used esp as a transmission line for radio-frequency signals
- cobalt yellow — aureolin.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
- cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate
- collaborative — A collaborative piece of work is done by two or more people or groups working together.
- colomb-bechar — former name of Béchar.
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- companionable — If you describe a person as companionable, you mean they are friendly and pleasant to be with.
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- conditionable — able to be conditioned