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15-letter words containing b, r, o, n

  • corn on the cob — Corn on the cob is the long rounded part of the maize or corn plant on which small yellow seeds grow, and which is eaten as a vegetable.
  • cornflower blue — a deep vivid blue, like that of the typical blooms of a cornflower
  • corona borealis — a small compact constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Boötes and Hercules
  • coronary bypass — the surgical bypass of a narrowed or blocked coronary artery by grafting a section of a healthy blood vessel taken from another part of the patient's body
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
  • corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
  • cotton bollworm — corn earworm.
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
  • counterbalances — Plural form of counterbalance.
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
  • countersubjects — Plural form of countersubject.
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • counting number — natural number
  • country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
  • cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
  • cranborne money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Lords to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1996
  • cybertechnology — Computer technology, especially that which involves the Internet or cyberspace.
  • cyclobenzaprine — A particular antidepressant generally prescribed as an analgesic and muscle relaxant.
  • davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • destruct button — a button that, when pressed, causes a missile or rocket to destruct
  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
  • detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
  • dichlorobenzene — any of a group of three insoluble isomeric chemical compounds used in solvents, insecticides, and dyes
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • donnybrook fair — a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • double concerto — a concerto for two solo instruments
  • double entendre — a double meaning.
  • double in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
  • double-entendre — a double meaning.
  • doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
  • drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
  • dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
  • enterobacterial — relating to enterobacteria
  • enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
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