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13-letter words containing b, c, l

  • chargeability — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
  • charitability — Charitableness.
  • 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
  • checkerblooms — Plural form of checkerbloom.
  • cheek by jowl — If you say that people or things are cheek by jowl with each other, you are indicating that they are very close to each other.
  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • chinese block — a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block played with a drumstick
  • chlorobenzene — a colourless volatile flammable insoluble liquid with an almond-like odour, made from chlorine and benzene and used as a solvent and in the preparation of many organic compounds, esp phenol and DDT. Formula: C6H5Cl
  • chlorobromide — a chlorine and bromine compound joined to a metal
  • chlorophyll-b — the green coloring matter of leaves and plants, essential to the production of carbohydrates by photosynthesis, and occurring in a bluish-black form, C 55 H 72 MgN 4 O 5 (chlorophyll a) and a dark-green form, C 55 H 70 MgN 4 O 6 (chlorophyll b)
  • chock-a-block — A place that is chock-a-block is very full of people, things, or vehicles.
  • chocolate bar — a block of chocolate
  • chocolate-box — Chocolate-box places or images are very pretty but in a boring or conventional way.
  • chronobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the periodicity occurring in living organisms
  • chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
  • circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
  • civil liberty — the right of an individual to certain freedoms of speech and action
  • clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
  • clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • class library — (programming)   A library of reusable classes for use with an object-oriented programming system.
  • 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
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • climbing fish — an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins
  • climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
  • climbing lily — a climbing lily of the genus Gloriosa, native to Africa and Asia, having showy red and yellow flowers.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • climbing wall — a specially constructed wall with recessed and projecting holds to give practice in rock climbing; a feature of many sports centres
  • clinker-built — (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below
  • clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
  • cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
  • clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
  • 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
  • club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
  • club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
  • 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.
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