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11-letter words containing c, a, b, l, e

  • convictable — to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial: to convict a prisoner of a felony.
  • coral bells — a perennial, ornamental alumroot (Heuchera sanguinea) native to SW North America, with racemes of drooping pink or white flowers
  • corbel arch — a construction like an arch but composed of masonry courses corbeled until they meet.
  • corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
  • core barrel — (in a core drill) a length of pipe for holding rock cores while they are being extracted from the drill hole.
  • correctable — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
  • corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
  • crab nebula — the expanding remnant of the supernova observed in 1054 ad, lying in the constellation Taurus at an approximate distance of 6500 light years
  • crab-plover — a black and white wading bird, Dromas ardeola, of the northern and western shores of the Indian Ocean.
  • cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
  • cranesbills — Plural form of cranesbill.
  • cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
  • cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
  • culebra cut — former name of Gaillard Cut.
  • cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
  • curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
  • cyclebabble — (jargon)   Advertising raw clock speed, instead of bus speed. A Tandy Color Computer ran at exactly the same speed, but clock speed was specified as bus speed, 0.895 MHz, leaving the impression that it was 4 times slower. Actually it ran a little faster with a more efficient instruction set. If the actual clock rate had been specified on a CoCo 3, it would have been 14.32 MHz, although the bus speed was still 0.895 MHz. That high speed also generated video, color, and hidden refresh timing. 100 MHz computers are running at bus speeds of around 25 MHz.
  • cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
  • de la beche — Henry. 1796–1855, English geologist. His work led to the founding of the Geological Survey (1835)
  • debauchedly — In a debauched manner.
  • deflectable — able to be deflected
  • delectables — Plural form of delectable.
  • depreciable — able to be depreciated for tax deduction
  • descrambled — Simple past tense and past participle of descramble.
  • descrambler — unscrambler (def 2).
  • describable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
  • discardable — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
  • discernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
  • discernably — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
  • discussable — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
  • dissociable — capable of being dissociated; separable: Worthy and unworthy motives are often not dissociable.
  • double back — 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 coat — an outer coat of hair on a dog serving as protection against underbrush and resistant to weather, combined with an undercoat of softer hair for warmth and waterproofing.
  • ecblastesis — a condition of flower production in plants in which buds occur within flowers and thereby produce extremely large blooms
  • eccaleobion — a type of equipment that provides warmth used to assist in the hatching of eggs
  • econobabble — Excessively obscure economic jargon.
  • edible crab — a species of crab, Cancer pagurus, found in the Mediterranean Sea, the North Sea, and the North Atlantic
  • educability — capable of being educated.
  • embraceable — Able or suitable to be embraced.
  • embracingly — In an embracing manner.
  • enforceable — Capable of being enforced.
  • equibalance — an equal weight or balance
  • escheatable — Liable to escheat.
  • eubacterial — (biology) Of or pertaining to the Eubacteria.
  • exchangable — Alternative spelling of exchangeable.
  • exercisable — Capable of being exercised, as a legal power.
  • extractable — Capable of being extracted.
  • extractible — Capable of being extracted.
  • fiddle back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
  • fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
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