14-letter words containing c, o, s, b
- charles talbot — Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
- cheesebox seat — a chair seat, usually of rush, having a rounded form and surrounded with a thin strip of wood.
- cherry blossom — the blossom of any of various spring-blooming cherries, prized for their beauty
- cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- climbing irons — spiked steel frames worn on the feet to assist in climbing trees, ice slopes, etc
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- cobbler's pegs — a common Australian weed, Bidens pilosa, with spiky peglike awns
- cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
- coff's harbour — a seaport in E Australia.
- cognoscibility — capable of being known.
- colby (cheese) — a variety of cheese similar to Cheddar but softer, moister, and more porous
- collaborations — Plural form of collaboration.
- collapsibility — (uncountable) The condition of being collapsible (or collapsable).
- colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
- colorblindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
- coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
- combinableness — The quality or state of being combinable.
- combustibility — capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable: Gasoline vapor is highly combustible.
- comma bacillus — a comma-shaped bacterium, Vibrio comma, that causes cholera in man: family Spirillaceae
- 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
- compatibilists — Plural form of compatibilist.
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- compossibility — the possibility of coexisting
- compostability — The quality of being compostable.
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
- congressmember — a member of a congress, especially of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
- consubstantial — (esp of the three persons of the Trinity) regarded as identical in substance or essence though different in aspect
- contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
- contrabandists — Plural form of contrabandist.
- contrabassoons — Plural form of contrabassoon.
- cook the books — to make fraudulent alterations to business or other accounts
- corroborations — Plural form of corroboration.
- costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
- council bluffs — city in SW Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebr.: pop. 58,000
- countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- cross bridging — bridging composed of crisscross pieces of wood.
- cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
- crossbolt lock — a lock controlling two bolts moving in opposite directions, as to the top and bottom of a doorframe.