13-letter words containing c, o, s, b
- contabescence — (of an anther) the condition of being unable to produce pollen
- 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
- contributions — Plural form of contribution.
- 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.
- 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
- core subjects — three foundation subjects (English, mathematics, and science) that are compulsory throughout each key stage in the National Curriculum
- corrosibility — corrodibility
- cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
- coulomb's law — the principle that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. A similar law holds for particles with mass
- counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
- country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
- 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.
- creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
- 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 the bar — to die
- cross-benches — (in the UK parliament) an area for members who are not allied to a particular party
- cross-buttock — a wrestling throw in which the hips are used as a fulcrum to throw an opponent
- crossbenchers — Plural form of crossbencher.
- crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
- cryobiologist — A biologist who specializes in cryobiology.
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
- diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
- ectosymbionts — Plural form of ectosymbiont.
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.
- endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
- exacerbations — Plural form of exacerbation.
- exercise book — An exercise book is a small book that students use for writing in.
- fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
- francis bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
- global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- hermosa beach — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.