14-letter words containing c, e, m, b
- contact number — a person's telephone number
- contemplatable — That can be contemplated.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyberdemocracy — Democracy as facilitated by the Internet or cyberspace.
- cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
- deadly embrace — deadlock
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
- elected member — person voted in as a member
- emblematically — In an emblematic manner.
- ensemble piece — a play involving no individual star but several actors whose roles are of equal importance
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- gabriel marcel — Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1887–1973, French philosopher, dramatist, and critic.
- hebrew-aramaic — a mixture of Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic
- honeycomb work — stalactite work.
- hors de combat — disabled or injured
- humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
- hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- ibm compatible — (computer) A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes). This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway 2000 and OS vendor Microsoft having taken control of the market, marginalising IBM.
- impeachability — The state or condition of being impeachable.
- imperial beach — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- implacableness — The quality of being implacable.
- income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
- incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
- incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- james buchanan — James, 1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.
- khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
- lake maracaibo — a lake in NW Venezuela, linked with the Gulf of Venezuela by a dredged channel: centre of the Venezuelan and South American oil industry. Area: about 13 000 sq km (500 sq miles)
- lamb's lettuce — corn salad.
- lambeth palace — the official residence of the archbishop of Canterbury, in Lambeth.
- lethal chamber — a room or enclosure where animals may be killed by exposure to a poison gas.
- licence number — an identifying number on a licence or licence plate that identifies it with the owner