14-letter words containing c, a, b, o
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- record cabinet — a piece of furniture like a cupboard, designed to hold or display vinyl records stacked on their side
- record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
- record-breaker — A record-breaker is someone or something that beats the previous best result in a sport or other activity.
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- rehoboth beach — a town in SE Delaware: beach resort.
- relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- rhombic aerial — a directional travelling-wave aerial, usually horizontal, consisting of two conductors each forming a pair of adjacent sides of a rhombus
- rob the cradle — a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
- robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- rolled tobacco — loose tobacco that is rolled into cigarettes
- sabbath school — Sunday school.
- saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
- school library — a library within a school where teachers and students have access to books and other resources
- second baseman — the player whose position is second base.
- second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
- serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.
- shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
- sheepback rock — roche moutonnée.
- sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
- shock absorber — a device for damping sudden and rapid motion, as the recoil of a spring-mounted object from shock.
- simaroubaceous — belonging to the Simaroubaceae, the quassia family of plants.
- sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
- social climber — a person who attempts to gain admission into a group with a higher social standing.
- son of a bitch — a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel.
- spitting cobra — any cobra or cobralike snake, especially the ringhals, that sprays venom at the eyes of approaching animals.
- starch blocker — a substance ingested in the belief that it inhibits the body's ability to metabolize starch and thereby promotes weight loss: declared illegal in the U.S. by the FDA.
- starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
- stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
- streptobacilli — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- subarborescent — below or under trees
- subassociation — an association that forms part of a larger association
- subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
- subcontinental — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
- subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
- subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
- subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- swanscombe man — a primitive human, Homo sapiens steinheimensis, of the middle Pleistocene Epoch, known from a fossil skull fragment found at Swanscombe, England.
- tablet coating — A tablet coating is a covering over a tablet, used to mask the taste, make it easier to swallow, or protect the active medication inside.
- ten-acre block — a block of subdivided farming land, usually within commuting distance of a city, that provides a semirural way of life
- thorough brace — either of two strong braces or bands of leather supporting the body of a coach or other vehicle and connecting the front and back springs.
- thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
- to be the case — If you say that something is the case, you mean that it is true or correct.
- to break cover — If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
- tobacco beetle — cigarette beetle.
- tobacco mosaic — a disease of the nightshade family of plants, particularly tobacco and tomato, caused by the tobacco mosaic virus and characterized by mottled leaves and yellowed, necrotic plants.