13-letter words containing b, o, s, c, a
- combativeness — The state of being combative.
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- compatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibilist — (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
- confiscatable — confiscable
- 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
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- contabescence — (of an anther) the condition of being unable to produce pollen
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrabandist — a person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
- contrabassist — Someone who plays the contrabass.
- contrabassoon — the largest instrument in the oboe family, pitched an octave below the bassoon; double bassoon
- 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.
- cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
- coulomb's law — the principle that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. A similar law holds for particles with mass
- counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
- crash blossom — an ambiguously worded headline whose meaning can be interpreted in the wrong way, as “Missing Woman Remains Found.”. See also garden-path.
- crayola books — (publication) A humorous and/or disparaging term for the rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards. See also Orange Book.
- cross the bar — to die
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
- decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
- diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.
- exacerbations — Plural form of exacerbation.
- fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
- francis bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
- global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- hermosa beach — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.