14-letter words containing b, o, c, e
- carbro process — a process for making carbon or pigment prints on bromide paper without exposure to light.
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- carrion beetle — any beetle of the family Silphidae that track carrion by a keen sense of smell
- cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
- 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.
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- charles talbot — Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- cheesebox seat — a chair seat, usually of rush, having a rounded form and surrounded with a thin strip of wood.
- cherry blossom — the blossom of any of various spring-blooming cherries, prized for their beauty
- cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- 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.
- cocktail table — a low table as for serving refreshments, esp. one in a living room
- coconut butter — a solid form of coconut oil
- cognate object — a noun functioning as the object of a verb to which it is etymologically related, as in think a thought or sing a song
- coinage bronze — an alloy of 95 percent copper, 4 percent tin, and 1 percent zinc.
- colby (cheese) — a variety of cheese similar to Cheddar but softer, moister, and more porous
- collectibility — The quality of being collectible.
- collecting box — a box for the temporary storage of examples or specimens
- collection box — A collection box is a box or tin that is used to collect money for charity.
- colorblindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
- columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
- 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
- combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
- combinableness — The quality or state of being combinable.
- combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
- commentary box — the place where the commentators on a sporting event sit
- 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
- complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
- complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
- comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
- comprehendible — comprehensible
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- computerphobic — a computerphobe
- concealability — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
- concelebration — the celebration of a Eucharist or Mass by two or more members of the clergy.