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13-letter words containing c, o, l, r, b

  • cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
  • cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate
  • collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • collaboration — Collaboration is the act of working together to produce a piece of work, especially a book or some research.
  • collaborative — A collaborative piece of work is done by two or more people or groups working together.
  • collaborators — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • collar button — the button used to fasten the collar down on a garment
  • cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
  • colomb-bechar — former name of Béchar.
  • colorado ruby — a fire-red form of garnet found in Colorado and other parts of North America
  • coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
  • combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • commuter belt — A commuter belt is the area surrounding a large city, where many people who work in the city live.
  • comparability — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
  • compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
  • concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
  • confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • conjecturable — Able to be conjectured upon.
  • constrainable — able to be constrained
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • contraorbital — of or relating to flight in the orbit of, but in a direction contrary to, a given rocket, ballistic missile, satellite, etc.
  • contributable — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • control board — a panel containing switches, dials, and other equipment for regulating electrical devices, lights, etc.
  • controllables — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • conveyor belt — A conveyor belt or a conveyor is a continuously-moving strip of rubber or metal which is used in factories for moving objects along so that they can be dealt with as quickly as possible.
  • cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
  • copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
  • corrigibility — The quality or state of being corrigible.
  • corrosibility — corrodibility
  • corticobulbar — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the brainstem, especially with regard to the corticobulbar tract, a white matter pathway connecting the two.
  • councilmember — a member of a council, especially a legislative council.
  • counter table — a medieval English table having a top divided into appropriately marked spaces for various denominations of money.
  • counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
  • country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
  • coventry bell — a perennial garden plant, Campanula trachelium, of Eurasia, having coarsely toothed leaves and bluish-purple flowers.
  • crash blossom — an ambiguously worded headline whose meaning can be interpreted in the wrong way, as “Missing Woman Remains Found.”. See also garden-path.
  • crayola books — (publication)   A humorous and/or disparaging term for the rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards. See also Orange Book.
  • cremorne bolt — (on a French window or the like) a pair of rods, moved by a knob mechanism, sliding into sockets in the head and sill of the opening to provide a secure fastening.
  • crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
  • cryobiologist — A biologist who specializes in cryobiology.
  • cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
  • decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
  • decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
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