10-letter words containing b, e, n, c
- confinable — to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
- confusable — Able or liable to be confused with something else.
- confutable — (archaic, or, formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
- conglobate — to form into a globe or ball
- conjugable — Capable of being conjugated.
- conscribed — Simple past tense and past participle of conscribe.
- consolable — to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
- constables — Plural form of constable.
- consumable — Consumable goods are items which are intended to be bought, used, and then replaced.
- contribute — If you contribute to something, you say or do things to help to make it successful.
- convenable — proper or correct in behaviour or conduct
- conveyable — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
- cool beans — excellent; impressive
- corbelling — a set of corbels stepped outwards, one above another
- cordonbleu — any of several small African finches of the genus Uraeginthus, having pale blue and buff plumage and commonly kept as cage birds.
- corn borer — the larva of a European moth (Ostrinia nubilalis), now a destructive pest in the U.S., feeding on corn and other plants
- corn bread — a baked or fried flat bread made with cornmeal and, variously, milk or water, flour, eggs, sugar, etc.
- cornerback — a defensive back
- coulterneb — The puffin.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- counterbug — (humour) A bug used as a relpy to refute another person's bug report, as in "counterargument".
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- crabbiness — the state of being crabby
- cranesbill — any of various plants of the genus Geranium, having pink or purple flowers and long slender beaked fruits: family Geraniaceae
- crazy bone — funny bone
- crossbones — a representation of two thighbones placed across each other, usually under that of a skull, used as a symbol of death or danger
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- crunchable — That can be crunched.
- cuban heel — a moderately high heel for a shoe or boot
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- cumberment — an obstruction or hindrance
- cummerbund — A cummerbund is a wide piece of cloth worn round the waist as part of a man's evening dress.
- curb reins — reins attached to a curb bit
- curbstones — Plural form of curbstone.
- cuttlebone — the internal calcareous shell of the cuttlefish, used as a mineral supplement to the diet of cage-birds and as a polishing agent
- cyberbunny — (abuse) Someone who knows absolutely nothing about computers and advises people who know absolutely nothing about computers. The term is used mostly on AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve, etc.
- cyberknife — a laser surgery technique which uses a mobile robotic arm to target tumours, etc, more effectively than conventional radiotherapy
- cybernetic — the study of human control functions and of mechanical and electronic systems designed to replace them, involving the application of statistical mechanics to communication engineering.
- cytarabine — a toxic synthetic nucleoside, C 9 H 13 N 3 O 5 , used as an immunosuppressive and cytotoxic agent in the treatment of certain leukemias.
- dance band — a band of musicians playing music for dancing
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- decaborane — (inorganic compound) The stable borane B10H14.
- deck cabin — a cabin on the deck of a boat from which the vessel is steered
- declinable — that can be declined; having case inflections
- decumbence — The act or posture of lying down.
- decumbency — Decumbence.
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.