12-letter words containing c, a, n, o, b
- noncombative — Not combative.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- nonmicrobial — not microbial, not caused by or related to microbes
- nonrevocable — Not revocable.
- notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
- obfuscations — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- oblanceolate — inversely lanceolate, as a leaf.
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
- obstetrician — a physician who specializes in obstetrics. Abbreviation: OB, ob.
- of substance — wealthy
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- oracle bones — animal bones used for divination
- ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
- osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
- outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- overbearance — (rare, or, obsolete) Overbearing behaviour; arrogance; imperiousness.
- panic button — an alarm button for use in an emergency, as to summon help.
- paul-boncour — Joseph [zhaw-zef] /ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1873–1972, French lawyer and statesman: premier 1932–33.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- procarbazine — a drug used in the treatment of cancer, esp lymphomas
- protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
- protuberancy — protuberance.
- radar beacon — a radar device at a fixed location that, on receiving a radar signal, automatically transmits a particular radar signal in reply, identifying itself and enabling navigators of ships and aircraft to determine their distance and direction from it.
- radio beacon — a radio station that sends a characteristic signal so as to enable ships or airplanes to determine their position or bearing by means of a radio compass.
- radio-carbon — Also called carbon 14. a radioactive isotope of carbon with mass number 14 and a half-life of about 5730 years: widely used in the dating of organic materials.
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- recognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
- renounceable — of a nature that can be renounced
- ribbon cable — (hardware) A type of flat multicore cable with cores positioned side-by-side, making it quick and relatively easy to clamp an Insulation Displacement Connector (IDC) across all cores. Ribbon cables typically have grey insulation with cores on a 0.050" pitch and a red stripe marking Pin 1. They are less resilient than screened, multicore cable and are usually used inside equipment where little movement or plugging and unplugging are expected. A common use is connecting a disk drive to the motherboard in a PC.
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- subarcuation — a structure that is somewhat arched
- subcutaneous — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- subsonically — at a velocity below that of sound