9-letter words containing c, a, b, n
- connubial — of or relating to marriage; conjugal
- constable — In Britain and some other countries, a constable is a police officer of the lowest rank.
- conybeare — William Daniel. 1787–1857, British geologist. He summarized all that was known about rocks at the time in Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822)
- cornballs — Plural form of cornball.
- cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
- cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
- cornbread — Cornbread is bread made from ground maize or corn. It is popular in the United States.
- countable — capable of being counted
- countably — in a countable manner
- countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
- cowabunga — Used to express delight or satisfaction.
- cranberry — Cranberries are red berries with a sour taste. They are often used to make a sauce or jelly that you eat with meat.
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cubanelle — a long thin variety of sweet pepper
- cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- cyan blue — a moderate greenish-blue to bluish-green color.
- cybernate — to control (a manufacturing process) with a servomechanism or (of a process) to be controlled by a servomechanism
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- cybrarian — a person responsible for archives and information available on the internet
- danceable — appropriate for or conducive to dancing: danceable music.
- daybeacon — an unlighted navigational beacon used as a daymark.
- dibucaine — a compound, C 20 H 29 N 3 O 2 , used as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- dubitancy — doubt; uncertainty
- dumb cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dumb-cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- embracing — Present participle of embrace.
- enactable — Capable of being enacted.
- encodable — able to be encoded
- escribano — a clerk or scribe
- excambion — an exchange, esp of land
- fabricant — a maker or manufacturer.
- fanciable — Sexually attractive.
- fibonacci — Leonardo (leoˈnardo), also called Leonardo of Pisa. ?1170–?1250, Italian mathematician: popularized the decimal system in Europe
- forecabin — the forward cabin on a vessel
- gernsback — Hugo, 1884–1967, U.S. publisher and inventor, born in Belgium: a pioneer in science-fiction publishing.
- go back n — (networking) A data link layer protocol.
- greenback — a U.S. legal-tender note, printed in green on the back since the Civil War, originally issued against the credit of the country and not against gold or silver on deposit.
- gynobasic — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- habitance — (obsolete) dwelling; abode; residence.
- habitancy — the act or fact of inhabiting; inhabitancy.
- hand back — return, give back
- hang back — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
- imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
- inbalance — Alternative spelling of imbalance.