10-letter words containing b, t, e, c
- chelatable — having the capability to chelate
- chesterbed — a sofa or chesterfield that opens into a bed.
- cinch belt — a wide belt of elastic, leather, or fabric with a clasp or lacing in front, worn tightly to make the waist look smaller.
- city break — a short holiday spent in a city
- clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
- club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
- clubfooted — Having a clubfoot.
- clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- cobwebsite — (jargon, web) A website that hasn't been updated for a long time. A dead web page.
- cockleboat — cockboat.
- coenobitic — cenobite.
- cohabitate — cohabit.
- cohibitive — restrictive
- coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
- cokebottle — (character, humour) /kohk'bot-l/ Any unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the "control-meta-cokebottle" commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained about the "altmode-altmode-cokebottle" commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, "cokebottle" was used less, but was often used to describe weird or non-intuitive keystrokes. The OSF/Motif window manager, "mwm" keystroke for switching to the default keybindings and behaviour is control-meta-bang. Since exclamation mark might be thought to look like a Coke bottle, Motif hackers referred to this keystroke as "cokebottle". See also quadruple bucky.
- collatable — able to be collated
- combatable — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combustive — the act or process of burning.
- come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
- comestible — food
- commutable — (of a punishment) capable of being reduced in severity
- compatable — Misspelling of compatible.
- compatible — If things, for example systems, ideas, and beliefs, are compatible, they work well together or can exist together successfully.
- competible — (obsolete) Compatible.
- computable — computability theory
- confutable — (archaic, or, formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
- conglobate — to form into a globe or ball
- constables — Plural form of constable.
- contribute — If you contribute to something, you say or do things to help to make it successful.
- coquimbite — hydrated ferric sulphate found in certain rocks and in volcanic fumaroles
- corbel out — to support on corbels
- corbiestep — one of a series of steps at the upper end wall of some gables
- coulterneb — The puffin.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- counterbug — (humour) A bug used as a relpy to refute another person's bug report, as in "counterargument".
- craft beer — a specialized beer produced in limited quantities by a small, usually independent brewery
- craft brew — an all-malt or nearly all-malt specialty beer usually brewed in a small, regional brewery.
- creditable — A creditable performance or achievement is of a reasonably high standard.
- creditably — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
- crib death — Crib death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- crib sheet — a sheet containing notes, etc, on a particular subject, used as a study aid
- cub master — a man who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- cube steak — a thin slice of beef that has been tenderized by being cubed
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge
- cultivable — (of land) capable of being cultivated
- culturable — able to be cultivated or cultured
- cumberment — an obstruction or hindrance