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11-letter words containing c, o, r, b, a, n

  • crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
  • crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
  • cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
  • decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)
  • decarbonize — to remove carbon from (the walls of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine)
  • embarcation — Alternative form of embarkation.
  • embrocating — Present participle of embrocate.
  • embrocation — A liquid used for rubbing on the body to relieve pain from sprains and strains.
  • enforceable — Capable of being enforced.
  • exorbitance — The state or characteristic of being exorbitant.
  • exorbitancy — Alternative form of exorbitance.
  • fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
  • forbearance — the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
  • forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
  • francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
  • halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
  • 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).
  • 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
  • multicarbon — having several carbon atoms
  • necrophobia — an abnormal fear of death; thanatophobia.
  • neo-hebraic — Hebrew as spoken and written since the Diaspora
  • non-aerobic — (of an organism or tissue) requiring the presence of air or free oxygen for life.
  • nonabstract — Not abstract.
  • noticeboard — Alternative spelling of notice board.
  • obscuration — the act of obscuring.
  • obsecration — to entreat solemnly; beseech; supplicate.
  • observances — Plural form of observance.
  • overbalance — to outweigh: The opportunity overbalances the disadvantages of leaving town.
  • prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • radiocarbon — Also called carbon 14. a radioactive isotope of carbon with mass number 14 and a half-life of about 5730 years: widely used in the dating of organic materials.
  • recombinant — of or resulting from new combinations of genetic material: recombinant cells.
  • rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
  • roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
  • subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
  • subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
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