10-letter words containing c, o, b, l
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- cellblocks — Plural form of cellblock.
- cellobiose — a disaccharide obtained by the hydrolysis of cellulose by cellulase. Formula: C12H22O11
- chalkboard — A chalkboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Chalkboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
- charbroils — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of charbroil.
- choliambic — relating to or in the form of choliambs
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- chop block — butcher-block.
- chubb lock — a type of lock with a device that sets the bolt immovably if the lock is picked
- clapboards — Plural form of clapboard.
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
- class book — a book published by members of a school or college class, containing pictures of students and teachers, an account of student activities, etc.
- climb down — If you climb down in an argument or dispute, you admit that you are wrong, or change your intentions or demands.
- climb-down — a retreat, as from an indefensible opinion or position.
- clipboards — Plural form of clipboard.
- clobbering — Present participle of clobber.
- clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
- cloudberry — a creeping Eurasian herbaceous rosaceous plant, Rubus chamaemorus, with white flowers and orange berry-like fruits (drupelets)
- cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
- club-house — a building or room occupied by a club.
- clubfooted — Having a clubfoot.
- clubhouses — Plural form of clubhouse.
- cnidoblast — any of the cells of a coelenterate that contain nematocysts
- co-orbital — noting or pertaining to two or more celestial bodies that share or almost share an orbit.
- co-publish — to publish (something) with another person or company
- coach bolt — a large round-headed bolt used esp to secure wood to masonry
- coagulable — that can be coagulated
- coal basin — a part of the earth's surface consisting of coal strata that slope down to a common centre
- coal-black — of a very dark black
- cobb salad — a salad consisting mainly of chopped lettuce, chicken, cheddar, egg, bacon, avocado, vinaigrette, and blue cheese
- cobweblike — Resembling or characteristic of a cobweb.
- cockabully — any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand
- cockblocks — Plural form of cockblock.
- cockleboat — cockboat.
- cockleburr — Alternative form of cocklebur.
- cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
- cockwomble — (UK,slang,derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- cognisable — Alternative form of cognizable.
- cognizable — perceptible
- cognizably — In a cognizable manner.
- cokebottle — (character, humour) /kohk'bot-l/ Any unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the "control-meta-cokebottle" commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained about the "altmode-altmode-cokebottle" commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, "cokebottle" was used less, but was often used to describe weird or non-intuitive keystrokes. The OSF/Motif window manager, "mwm" keystroke for switching to the default keybindings and behaviour is control-meta-bang. Since exclamation mark might be thought to look like a Coke bottle, Motif hackers referred to this keystroke as "cokebottle". See also quadruple bucky.
- collarbone — Your collarbones are the two long bones which run from throat to your shoulders.
- collatable — able to be collated
- collembola — Any of many minute wingless arthropods of subclass Collembola; a springtail.
- colloblast — one of the cells covered with sticky granules on the tentacles of a ctenophore, which aid in capturing prey.
- colorblind — unable to perceive colors or to distinguish between certain colors, as red and green
- colorbreed — to breed plants or animals selectively for the production of new varieties having a specific color or shade.