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13-letter words containing b, l, e, t, c

  • capstan table — drum table.
  • car boot sale — A car boot sale is a sale where people sell things they own and do not want from a little stall or from the back of their car.
  • carbonneutral — 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.
  • carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
  • carlton table — an English writing table of c1800, having curved rear corners and a top with drawers surmounted by a U -shaped section of drawers and cabinets, topped by a brass or ormolu gallery surrounding three sides of the writing area.
  • carpet beetle — any of various beetles of the genus Anthrenus, the larvae of which feed on carpets, furnishing fabrics, etc: family Dermestidae
  • carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
  • carte blanche — If someone gives you carte blanche, they give you the authority to do whatever you think is right.
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
  • cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
  • chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
  • changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
  • chargeability — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
  • charles abbotCharles 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
  • child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
  • chocolate bar — a block of chocolate
  • chocolate-box — Chocolate-box places or images are very pretty but in a boring or conventional way.
  • civil liberty — the right of an individual to certain freedoms of speech and action
  • 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 bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
  • 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.
  • clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
  • clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
  • club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
  • cobalt yellow — aureolin.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
  • collaborative — A collaborative piece of work is done by two or more people or groups working together.
  • come to blows — to fight
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • commuter belt — A commuter belt is the area surrounding a large city, where many people who work in the city live.
  • concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
  • concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
  • conditionable — able to be conditioned
  • confiscatable — confiscable
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • conjecturable — Able to be conjectured upon.
  • console table — a table with one or more curved legs of bracket-like construction, designed to stand against a wall
  • constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
  • constrainable — able to be constrained
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • contributable — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • controllables — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • conveyor belt — A conveyor belt or a conveyor is a continuously-moving strip of rubber or metal which is used in factories for moving objects along so that they can be dealt with as quickly as possible.
  • coolidge tube — a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.
  • copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
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