10-letter words containing c, o, m, b
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- climb down — If you climb down in an argument or dispute, you admit that you are wrong, or change your intentions or demands.
- climb-down — a retreat, as from an indefensible opinion or position.
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
- cochabamba — a city in central Bolivia. Pop: 561 000 (2005 est)
- cockscombs — Plural form of cockscomb.
- cockwomble — (UK,slang,derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
- collembola — Any of many minute wingless arthropods of subclass Collembola; a springtail.
- columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
- columbines — Plural form of columbine.
- comb jelly — ctenophore
- combat car — a small armoured car
- combatable — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combatants — a nation engaged in active fighting with enemy forces.
- combatting — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combinable — capable of combining or being combined.
- combinator — (computer science) A lambda expression which has no free variables in it.
- combinedly — made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
- comburgess — (formerly) a fellow citizen or freeman of a borough
- combusting — Present participle of combust.
- combustion — Combustion is the act of burning something or the process of burning.
- combustive — the act or process of burning.
- combustors — Plural form of combustor.
- come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
- comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
- comestible — food
- comic book — A comic book is a magazine that contains stories told in pictures.
- comm badge — a small combined radio transmitter and receiver, carried around by one person, esp military personnel, in the form of a badge worn on the chest
- commonable — (of land) held in common
- commutable — (of a punishment) capable of being reduced in severity
- comparable — Something that is comparable to something else is roughly similar, for example in amount or importance.
- comparably — 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.
- compatable — Misspelling of compatible.
- compatible — If things, for example systems, ideas, and beliefs, are compatible, they work well together or can exist together successfully.
- compatibly — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
- competible — (obsolete) Compatible.
- compilable — (computing) That can be compiled.
- compliable — compliant
- composable — to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements: He composed his speech from many research notes.
- computable — computability theory
- consumable — Consumable goods are items which are intended to be bought, used, and then replaced.
- coquimbite — hydrated ferric sulphate found in certain rocks and in volcanic fumaroles
- cor blimey — an exclamation of surprise or annoyance
- corn broom — a broom made from the panicles of broomcorn.
- cosmic web — a network of filaments of dark matter, believed by many astronomers to form the basis of the universe
- court tomb — a type of Neolithic trapezoidal burial mound having a semicircular forecourt at one end and bounded by large standing stones, common in the British Isles.
- cribriform — pierced with holes; sievelike