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11-letter words containing c, a, n, b

  • cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
  • cabin fever — If you describe someone as having cabin fever, you mean that they feel restless and irritable because they have been indoors in one place for too long.
  • cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
  • cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • cablevision — cable television.
  • cainophobia — The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
  • calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
  • calibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • can't abide — If you can't abide someone or something, you dislike them very much.
  • canal barge — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
  • cancelbunny — Cancelpoodle
  • cancellable — able to be cancelled
  • candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
  • candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
  • candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
  • cannabidiol — (organic compound) A non-psychoactive cannabinoid found in the hemp plant Cannabis sativa.
  • cannabinoid — any of the narcotic chemical substances found in cannabin
  • cannibalise — to subject to cannibalism.
  • cannibalism — If a group of people practise cannibalism, they eat the flesh of other people.
  • cannibalize — If you cannibalize something, you take it to pieces and use it to make something else.
  • cannon bone — a bone in the legs of horses and other hoofed animals consisting of greatly elongated fused metatarsals or metacarpals
  • cannon-ball — a missile, usually round and made of iron or steel, designed to be fired from a cannon.
  • cannonballs — Plural form of cannonball.
  • canoe birch — paper birch.
  • canvas-back — a North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, the male of which has a whitish back and a reddish-brown head and neck.
  • canvasbacks — Plural form of canvasback.
  • capableness — The state or quality of being capable.
  • cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
  • cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
  • capstan bar — a lever, often wooden, for turning a capstan
  • car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
  • carabineers — Plural form of carabineer.
  • carabineros — Plural form of carabinero.
  • carabiniere — an Italian national policeman
  • carabinieri — a member of the Italian national police force, organized as a military unit and charged with maintaining public security and order as well as assisting local police.
  • carbamidine — guanidine.
  • carbapenems — Plural form of carbapenem.
  • carbocation — (chemistry) any cation containing an excess positive charge on one or more carbon atoms.
  • carbon copy — If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.
  • carbon sink — areas of vegetation, esp forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels
  • carbon-copy — a duplicate of anything written or typed, made by using a photocopier or, formerly, by using carbon paper. Abbreviation: cc. a copy of an email or other electronic document that is sent to one or more people in addition to the primary addressee. Abbreviation: cc.
  • carbon-date — to determine the age of an organic object by examining the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14
  • carbonating — Present participle of carbonate.
  • carbonation — absorption of or reaction with carbon dioxide
  • carbonatite — a rare intrusive or extrusive igneous rock, mostly found in Africa, that contains a high proportion of carbonate minerals
  • carbonizing — Present participle of carbonize.
  • carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
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