14-letter words containing c, o, m, b, e
- commissionable — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- common objects — (language) An object-oriented Lisp from Hewlett-Packard.
- comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
- compassionable — exciting or deserving pity
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
- complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
- comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
- comprehendible — comprehensible
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- computerphobic — a computerphobe
- congressmember — a member of a congress, especially of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- contact number — a person's telephone number
- contemplatable — That can be contemplated.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyberdemocracy — Democracy as facilitated by the Internet or cyberspace.
- cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- 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.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- 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.
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- honeycomb work — stalactite work.
- hors de combat — disabled or injured
- 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.
- income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
- incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
- incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- lake maracaibo — a lake in NW Venezuela, linked with the Gulf of Venezuela by a dredged channel: centre of the Venezuelan and South American oil industry. Area: about 13 000 sq km (500 sq miles)
- linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- marble orchard — cemetery.
- metabolic heat — animal heat.
- metabolic rate — the rate at which living organisms expend energy or convert energy into food
- mexican bamboo — a hardy plant, Polygonum cuspidatum, of the buckwheat family, native to Japan, having small, greenish-white flowers and tending to escape from cultivation.
- microbreweries — Plural form of microbrewery.
- microcelebrity — a celebrity whose fame is relatively narrow in scope and likely to be transient