10-letter words containing c, o, b, n
- psilocybin — a hallucinogenic crystalline solid, C 1 2 H 1 7 N 2 O 4 P, obtained from the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- punch bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- punch-bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- rabdomancy — Alt form rhabdomancy.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- reblocking — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
- reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reprobance — reprobation.
- rio branco — a state in W Brazil. 58,900 sq. mi. (152,550 sq. km). Capital: Rio Branco.
- rock-bound — hemmed in, enclosed, or covered by rocks; rocky: the rock-bound coast of Maine.
- schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- snobocracy — a social class of snobs
- sonic boom — a loud noise caused by the shock wave generated by an aircraft moving at supersonic speed.
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- spoon back — a back of a chair or the like, having a splat curved outward at the bottom.
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- subcompany — subsidiary company.
- subcontrol — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- subduction — an act or instance of subducting; subtraction or withdrawal.
- subeconomy — an economy within another economy
- subjection — the act of subjecting.
- suboceanic — occurring or existing below the floor of the ocean: suboceanic oil.
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- subsection — a part or division of a section.
- table corn — Chiefly Eastern U.S. sweet corn.
- the bounce — the start of play at the beginning of each quarter or after a goal
- tibouchina — a member of the genus Tibouchina, which includes 350 species of shrubs found in South America
- tick-borne — carried or transmitted by ticks: tick-borne disease.
- tobramycin — a highly toxic aminoglycoside antibiotic, C 18 H 37 N 5 O 9 , derived from Streptomyces tenebarius, used in the treatment of serious infections due to susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms.
- turnbroach — (formerly) a servant whose job was to turn the spit on which meat, poultry, etc, was roasting
- twice-born — Hinduism. of or relating to members of the Indian castes of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaisyas, who undergo a spiritual rebirth and initiation in adolescence.
- unbeckoned — a nod, gesture, etc., that signals, directs, summons, indicates agreement, or the like.
- unbecoming — detracting from one's appearance, character, or reputation; unattractive or unseemly: an unbecoming hat; unbecoming language.
- unbroached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- uncombined — made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
- unforcible — not able to be forced
- unlockable — to undo the lock of (a door, chest, etc.), especially with a key.
- unobscured — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- unsociable — not sociable; having, showing, or marked by a disinclination to friendly social relations; withdrawn.
- upbuoyance — an uplifting or buoying up
- web beacon — a very small graphic image or other object embedded in an HTML-formatted web page or email, used to track the online actions and activity of users: Web beacons that monitor customer preferences.
- xenobiotic — a chemical or substance that is foreign to an organism or biological system.
- xenophobic — relating to or exhibiting fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
- zonta club — one of an organization of service clubs composed of business and professional women, founded in 1919, and a member chapter of a worldwide organization (Zonta International) dedicated to promoting world peace and fellowship.
- zygobranch — a creature belonging to the Zygobranchia genus, which includes molluscs with paired gills