11-letter words containing b, c, a
- coprophobia — an abnormal fear of feces.
- coral bells — a perennial, ornamental alumroot (Heuchera sanguinea) native to SW North America, with racemes of drooping pink or white flowers
- coram nobis — a writ to correct an injury caused by a mistake of the court.
- 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.
- cornerbacks — Plural form of cornerback.
- 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.
- corroborant — serving to corroborate
- corroborate — To corroborate something that has been said or reported means to provide evidence or information that supports it.
- corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
- corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
- costa brava — a coastal region of NE Spain along the Mediterranean, extending from Barcelona to the French border: many resorts
- cotton swab — A cotton swab is the same as a swab.
- cougar bait — a younger man who is often pursued by older women seeking a sexual relationship: We all agreed he was prime cougar bait.
- counterbase — a double bass
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- coxcombical — of or resembling the characteristic nature of a coxcomb
- crab cactus — Christmas cactus
- 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 spider — any of a family (Thomisidae) of spiders that move sideways like crabs
- crab-plover — a black and white wading bird, Dromas ardeola, of the northern and western shores of the Indian Ocean.
- crabbedness — The state or quality of being crabbed.
- cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
- cranberries — Plural form of cranberry.
- cranesbills — Plural form of cranesbill.
- crazy about — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- cricket bat — a specially shaped, carved wooden bat used to play cricket
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crossbarred — having a crossbar or crossbars
- crossbearer — a person who carries or wears a cross
- crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
- 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.
- curb market — curb (def 5).
- currant bun — a sweet bun containing currants
- cut sb dead — If you see someone you know and cut them dead, you ignore them.
- cut tobacco — tobacco cut into thin shreds as used in cigarettes, often for pipes and for rolling
- cyberattack — an attempt to damage or disrupt a computer system, or obtain information stored on a computer system, by means of hacking
- cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
- cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
- cybersafety — Safety in using the Internet.
- 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.