11-letter words containing c, o, b, n
- flamboyance — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flamboyancy — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- forbearance — the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forcing bid — a bid, often at a higher level than is required, that is understood to oblige the bidder's partner to reply
- francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
- front bench — (used with a singular verb) (in the House of Commons) either of two seats near the Speaker, on which the leaders of the major parties sit.
- gnotobiotic — (of germfree animals) inoculated with microorganisms of a given type.
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- holobenthic — (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths
- honeycombed — Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- hybrid corn — a crossbred corn, especially the grain of corn developed by hybridization of repeatedly self-pollinated, and therefore genetically pure, varieties.
- hydrocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- imbrication — an overlapping, as of tiles or shingles.
- incoercible — incapable of being coerced or compelled.
- incogitable — Not cogitable; inconceivable.
- incombering — Present participle of incomber.
- income bond — a bond without a guaranteed amount of interest payment, such payment being usually made only out of earnings.
- incrossbred — of or relating to the progeny that result from crossing inbred lines or varieties.
- incubations — Plural form of incubation.
- inobedience — disobedience
- invoiceable — Capable of being invoiced; billable.
- ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
- jacobinized — Simple past tense and past participle of jacobinize.
- job costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- job vacancy — a job which has not been filled
- kick boxing — a form of boxing in which the gloved combatants may also kick with bare feet.
- knock about — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knockabouts — Plural form of knockabout.
- knucklebone — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
- langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
- locust bean — carob.
- long branch — a city in E New Jersey: seaside resort.
- lophobranch — belonging or pertaining to the Lophobranchii, the group of fishes comprising the pipefishes, sea horses, snipefishes, trumpetfishes, etc.
- lubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
- march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
- misbecoming — Present participle of misbecome.
- mockingbird — any of several gray, black, and white songbirds of the genus Mimus, especially M. polyglottos, of the U.S. and Mexico, noted for their ability to mimic the songs of other birds.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- monoblastic — having a single layer, as an embryo in the blastula stage or developing from a single layer.
- multicarbon — having several carbon atoms