13-letter words containing c, a, b, o
- comparability — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- compatability — Misspelling of compatibility.
- compatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibilist — (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibility — compatible
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- computability — (computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
- concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- conditionable — able to be conditioned
- confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
- confabulation — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- confiscatable — confiscable
- congratulable — worthy of congratulation
- conjecturable — Able to be conjectured upon.
- console table — a table with one or more curved legs of bracket-like construction, designed to stand against a wall
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- constrainable — able to be constrained
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- contabescence — (of an anther) the condition of being unable to produce pollen
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrabandist — a person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
- contrabassist — Someone who plays the contrabass.
- contrabassoon — the largest instrument in the oboe family, pitched an octave below the bassoon; double bassoon
- contract bond — an indemnity agreement to protect against loss due to breach of contract.
- contraorbital — of or relating to flight in the orbit of, but in a direction contrary to, a given rocket, ballistic missile, satellite, etc.
- contributable — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- control board — a panel containing switches, dials, and other equipment for regulating electrical devices, lights, etc.
- controllables — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
- copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
- corroborating — Present participle of corroborate.
- corroboration — the act of corroborating.
- corroborative — Corroborative evidence or information supports an idea, account, or argument.
- corroboratory — Serving to corroborate or strengthen.
- corticobulbar — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the brainstem, especially with regard to the corticobulbar tract, a white matter pathway connecting the two.
- cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
- coulomb's law — the principle that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. A similar law holds for particles with mass
- counter table — a medieval English table having a top divided into appropriately marked spaces for various denominations of money.
- counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
- covalent bond — a type of chemical bond involving the sharing of electrons between atoms in a molecule, esp the sharing of a pair of electrons by two adjacent atoms
- coxcombically — in a coxcombical manner
- cranberry bog — a bog in which cranberry plants are cultivated.
- crash blossom — an ambiguously worded headline whose meaning can be interpreted in the wrong way, as “Missing Woman Remains Found.”. See also garden-path.
- crayola books — (publication) A humorous and/or disparaging term for the rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards. See also Orange Book.
- cross the bar — to die
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- currant borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Ramosia tipuliformis, that bores into the stems of currants.
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.