12-letter words containing c, l, a, s, b
- bliss carman — (William) Bliss, 1861–1929, Canadian poet and journalist in the U.S.
- blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
- block island — an island off the coast of and a part of Rhode Island, at the E entrance to Long Island Sound.
- block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
- blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
- board school — (formerly) a school managed by a board elected by local ratepayers
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
- box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
- brass-collar — unwaveringly faithful to a political party; voting the straight ticket: a brass-collar Democrat.
- cabalistical — cabalistic
- cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
- cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- cactoblastis — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum of South America, that was introduced into Australia to act as a biological control on the prickly pear
- calabrasella — a card game for three persons that is played with a 40-card pack made by removing the eights, nines, and tens from a regular 52-card pack.
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- cannibalised — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalise.
- cannibalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cannibalize.
- capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
- carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
- carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- channel bass — red drum.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- class b drug — (in Britain) any of the second most dangerous group of controlled drugs, including amphetamine
- class object — (programming) In object-oriented programming, an object of class "class" that represents a class at run time. The existence of class objects allows introspection - the ability for a program to discover and modify attributes of its own code. (See self-modifying code). A class object may also be used for "housekeeping" tasks like keeping count of how many objects of the class have been created, though this may also be done by some kind of collection object. A class method is a method that operates on class objects.
- classifiable — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
- close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
- colacobiosis — (among social insects) life in which one species lives as a parasite in the community of another species.
- collaborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collaborate.
- collectables — capable of being collected.
- collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
- columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- commiserable — worthy of commiseration; pitiable
- connubialism — the state of being married
- conscionable — acceptable to one's conscience
- conscionably — being in conformity with one's conscience; just.
- 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.
- 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.
- coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
- coralberries — Plural form of coralberry.