14-letter words containing b, e, s
- calamine brass — an alloy of zinc carbonate and copper, formerly used to imitate gold.
- cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
- cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
- 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
- campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
- carbon process — a photographic process for producing positive prints by exposing sensitized carbon tissue to light passing through a negative. Washing removes the unexposed gelatine leaving the pigmented image in the exposed insoluble gelatine
- carbro process — a process for making carbon or pigment prints on bromide paper without exposure to light.
- castelo branco — Humberto de Alencar [oon-ber-too di ah-len-kahr] /ũˈbɛr tʊ dɪ ɑ lɛ̃ˈkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1900–67, Brazilian general and statesman: president 1964–67.
- celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- cerebral palsy — Cerebral palsy is a condition caused by damage to a baby's brain before or during its birth, which makes its limbs and muscles permanently weak.
- changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
- charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
- charles albert — 1798–1849, king of Sardinia-Piedmont (1831–49) during the Risorgimento: abdicated after the failure of his revolt against Austria
- charles talbot — Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
- checkerberries — Plural form of checkerberry.
- cheesebox seat — a chair seat, usually of rush, having a rounded form and surrounded with a thin strip of wood.
- chemical abuse — the habitual use of a mood-altering drug, alcoholic beverage, etc.
- cherry blossom — the blossom of any of various spring-blooming cherries, prized for their beauty
- chesapeake bay — the largest inlet of the Atlantic in the coast of the US: bordered by Maryland and Virginia
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- chinese banana — a large southern Chinese plant, Musa acuminata, of the banana family, having blue-green leaves, yellowish-white flowers with reddish-brown bracts, and fragrant, edible, curved fruit from 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 cm) long, often borne in clusters of 200.
- cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
- christmasberry — toyon.
- church visible — the entire body of Christian believers on earth.
- circumbendibus — a circumlocution
- citizens' band — Citizens' Band is a range of radio frequencies which the general public is allowed to use to send messages to each other and is used especially by truck drivers in their vehicles. The abbreviation CB is often used.
- clabber cheese — cottage cheese.
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- cobbler's pegs — a common Australian weed, Bidens pilosa, with spiky peglike awns
- cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
- colby (cheese) — a variety of cheese similar to Cheddar but softer, moister, and more porous
- colorblindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
- coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
- combinableness — The quality or state of being combinable.
- commissionable — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- common objects — (language) An object-oriented Lisp from Hewlett-Packard.
- comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
- compassionable — exciting or deserving pity
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- congressmember — a member of a congress, especially of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
- cook the books — to make fraudulent alterations to business or other accounts
- costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.