13-letter words containing c, o, r, n, b
- 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.
- cockney bream — a young snapper fish
- 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.
- collar button — the button used to fasten the collar down on a garment
- cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
- coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
- combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
- concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
- confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- congratulable — worthy of congratulation
- congress boot — a high shoe with an elastic insert in each side
- conjecturable — Able to be conjectured upon.
- constrainable — able to be constrained
- constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrabandist — a person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
- contrabassist — Someone who plays the contrabass.
- contrabassoon — the largest instrument in the oboe family, pitched an octave below the bassoon; double bassoon
- contract bond — an indemnity agreement to protect against loss due to breach of contract.
- 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.
- contribute to — to have a share in bringing about (a result); be partly responsible for
- contributions — Plural form of contribution.
- 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.
- core business — the business activity that is main source of a company's profits and success, usually the activity that the company was originally set up to carry out
- corroborating — Present participle of corroborate.
- corroboration — the act of corroborating.
- 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.
- counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
- counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
- counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
- counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
- 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.
- cover bidding — the act of tendering an artificially high price for a contract, on the assumption that the tender will not be accepted
- cranberry bog — a bog in which cranberry plants are cultivated.
- 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.
- cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
- cross-benches — (in the UK parliament) an area for members who are not allied to a particular party
- crossbenchers — Plural form of crossbencher.