12-letter words containing c, a, n, o, b
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
- contabescent — unable to produce pollen
- contaminable — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- contemplable — able to be contemplated
- contemptable — Contemptible.
- contrabasses — Plural form of contrabass.
- contrabbasso — a double bass
- contractable — capable of being contracted
- contractible — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- contrastable — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
- contributary — contributory
- controllable — If something is controllable you are able to control or influence it.
- controllably — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- conurbations — Plural form of conurbation.
- corner table — a table of the 18th century having a triangular top with a triangular drop leaf of the same size.
- countability — the fact of being countable
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- counterbrace — a rope on the leeward side of a ship, controlling the position of the fore-topsail
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- decarbonated — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonize.
- decarbonizer — One who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
- enterobacter — Any bacterium of the genus Enterobacter.
- exacerbation — An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease).
- fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
- fall back on — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
- forebearance — Misspelling of forbearance.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.