13-letter words containing b
- chronobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the periodicity occurring in living organisms
- chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
- chukka (boot) — an ankle-high bootlike shoe, usually with two or three pairs of eyelets
- 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.
- circumambages — round-about methods
- circumambient — surrounding
- circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
- circumscribed — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
- circumscribes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumscribe.
- citizens band — a two-way radio service (Citizens Radio Service) licensed by the FCC to a U.S. citizen for short-distance personal or business communications between fixed or mobile stations. Abbreviation: CB.
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- civil liberty — the right of an individual to certain freedoms of speech and action
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
- clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- class library — (programming) A library of reusable classes for use with an object-oriented programming system.
- classic blues — a type of city blues performed by a female singer accompanied by a small group
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clear a table — When you clear a table, you remove things from it that you do not want to be there.
- clearing bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
- clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
- cleavableness — the quality of being cleavable
- cleveland bay — one of the oldest British breeds of clean-legged, light draught farm and carriage horse, originating from Yorkshire
- climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
- climbing fish — an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins
- 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 lily — a climbing lily of the genus Gloriosa, native to Africa and Asia, having showy red and yellow flowers.
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- climbing wall — a specially constructed wall with recessed and projecting holds to give practice in rock climbing; a feature of many sports centres
- clinker-built — (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below
- clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
- cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- 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 sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
- club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
- coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
- coaxial cable — a cable consisting of an inner insulated core of stranded or solid wire surrounded by an outer insulated flexible wire braid, used esp as a transmission line for radio-frequency signals
- cobalt yellow — aureolin.
- 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.
- cocaine habit — an addiction to cocaine