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13-letter words containing b, r, o, c

  • cinchona bark — the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
  • cinnamon bear — a reddish-brown variety of the American black bear
  • circuit board — A circuit board is the same as a printed circuit board.
  • circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
  • clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
  • clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
  • cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
  • club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
  • cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate
  • cockney bream — a young snapper fish
  • collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • collaboration — Collaboration is the act of working together to produce a piece of work, especially a book or some research.
  • collaborative — A collaborative piece of work is done by two or more people or groups working together.
  • collaborators — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • collar button — the button used to fasten the collar down on a garment
  • cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
  • colomb-bechar — former name of Béchar.
  • colorado ruby — a fire-red form of garnet found in Colorado and other parts of North America
  • coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
  • combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
  • combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
  • 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.
  • commuter belt — A commuter belt is the area surrounding a large city, where many people who work in the city live.
  • comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
  • comparability — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
  • compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
  • computerphobe — a person with a strong fear or dislike of computers
  • concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
  • concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
  • confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • congress boot — a high shoe with an elastic insert in each side
  • conjecturable — Able to be conjectured upon.
  • constrainable — able to be constrained
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
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