14-letter words containing b, a, o, u
- cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
- camera obscura — a darkened chamber or small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a convex lens in an aperture
- camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
- carbon capture — the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, esp as a technique to prevent climate change
- carbon neutral — A carbon neutral lifestyle, company, or activity does not cause an increase in the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
- carbon-neutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
- carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
- carboxyl group — functional group in organic acids
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
- ciudad bolivar — a port in E Venezuela, on the Orinoco River: accessible to ocean-going vessels. Pop: 344 000 (2005 est)
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- coff's harbour — a seaport in E Australia.
- colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
- columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
- combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
- comma bacillus — a comma-shaped bacterium, Vibrio comma, that causes cholera in man: family Spirillaceae
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
- conglobulation — the act of conglobing
- conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
- consubstantial — (esp of the three persons of the Trinity) regarded as identical in substance or essence though different in aspect
- contact number — a person's telephone number
- contributional — the act of contributing.
- countable noun — A countable noun is the same as a count noun.
- countably many — countable
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
- court cupboard — a wooden stand with two or three tiers, used in the 16th and 17th centuries to display pewter, silver, etc
- cubic zirconia — a synthetic crystalline compound of zirconium oxide, fashioned to resemble diamonds, etc.
- cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
- cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.