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14-letter words containing c, o, b, l

  • cryobiological — of or relating to cryobiology
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • cyanocobalamin — a complex red crystalline compound, containing cyanide and cobalt and occurring in liver: lack of it in the tissues leads to pernicious anaemia. Formula: C63H88O14N14PCo
  • cyclobarbitone — a barbiturate derivative drug used as a sedative and hypnotic
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • cylinder block — the metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling channels or fins of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • debt collector — a person that collects debts on behalf of creditors
  • decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
  • decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
  • decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
  • diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
  • diplomatic bag — A diplomatic bag is a bag or container in which mail is sent to and from foreign embassies. Diplomatic bags are protected by law, so that they are not opened by anyone except the official or embassy they are addressed to.
  • 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.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • dissociability — Lack of sociability; unsociableness.
  • do one's block — to become angry
  • dodecasyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to 12 syllables.
  • dodecasyllable — a word or line of verse containing 12 syllables.
  • double coconut — a tall, stout, fan palm, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles Islands, having nuts that are the largest seeds of any plant, often weighing 50 pounds (22.6 kg): populations are declining.
  • double deckers — (jargon)   Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
  • 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.
  • electrobiology — (physics, biology) The study of the production and use of electricity by biological organisms.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
  • exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
  • flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
  • football match — a match played between two football teams
  • football pitch — ground where soccer is played
  • forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • fourfold block — a block having four pulleys or sheaves. Compare block (def 11).
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • garbologically — From the perspective of garbology.
  • global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
  • goose barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
  • hyperbolically — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
  • 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.
  • inapproachable — not approachable.
  • inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
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