13-letter words containing c, a, r, b, n, i
- birectangular — having two right angles.
- black russian — a drink made from one part coffee liqueur and two parts vodka, served over ice.
- boarding card — A boarding card is a card which a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
- boraginaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Boraginaceae, a family of temperate and tropical typically hairy-leaved flowering plants that includes forget-me-not, lungwort, borage, comfrey, and heliotrope
- boron carbide — a black extremely hard inert substance having a high capture cross section for thermal neutrons. It is used as an abrasive, refractory, and in control rods in nuclear reactors. Formula: B4C
- brace and bit — a hand tool for boring holes, consisting of a cranked handle into which a drilling bit is inserted
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- brachycranial — brachycephalic
- brain scanner — a machine used to perform brain scans
- brain-picking — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
- branch office — the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
- branch rickey — (Wesley) Branch, 1881–1965, U.S. baseball executive.
- break dancing — a style of dance engaged in by youths, involving acrobatic movements, spinning about on the head or shoulders, etc.
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- brilliant cut — a cut for gems
- brilliant-cut — a cut intended to enhance the brilliance of a gem with the least possible sacrifice of weight, characterized by a form resembling two pyramids set base to base, truncated so as to give a broad table and a very small culet, and having from 18 to 104 facets, 58 being typical.
- buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
- business card — A person's business card or their card is a small card which they give to other people, and which has their name and details of their job and company printed on it.
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- cabin cruiser — A cabin cruiser is a motor boat which has a cabin for people to live or sleep in.
- cabinet maker — A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cabinet-maker — a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.
- cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
- cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
- candleberries — Plural form of candleberry.
- carbamazepine — an anticonvulsant drug used in the management of epilepsy
- carbenicillin — a semisynthetic penicillin, C 17 H 16 N 2 Na 2 O 6 S, used against certain bacteria, especially those involved in urinary tract infections.
- carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
- carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
- carbon ribbon — the ribbon in a typewriter which contains the ink which produces the letters on paper
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- carbonatation — saturation or reaction with carbon dioxide.
- carbonic acid — a weak acid formed when carbon dioxide combines with water: obtained only in aqueous solutions, never in the pure state. Formula: H2CO3
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- carbonisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of carbonization.
- carbonium ion — type of positively charged organic ion
- carbonization — Carbonization is a process in which a fuel is heated without air to leave solid porous carbon.
- carbonylation — the introduction of a carbonyl group into a compound through chemical reaction
- carboxylation — a chemical reaction that introduces a carboxyl group into a molecule or compound, forming a carboxylic acid or a carboxylate
- carburization — Impregnation or reaction with carbon, especially in the manufacture of steel.
- carcinophobia — Inordinate dread of contracting cancer.
- caribbean sea — an almost landlocked sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean, bounded by the Caribbean islands, Central America, and the N coast of South America. Area: 2 718 200 sq km (1 049 500 sq miles)
- caribou inuit — a member of any of the Inuit peoples who formerly inhabited the Barren Lands of N Canada
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
- chateaubriand — François René (frɑ̃swa rəne), Vicomte de Chateaubriand. 1768–1848, French writer and statesman: a precursor of the romantic movement in France; his works include Le Génie du Christianisme (1802) and Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50)
- child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
- chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace