14-letter words containing c, o, s, t, b, e
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- 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.
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
- common objects — (language) An object-oriented Lisp from Hewlett-Packard.
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
- cook the books — to make fraudulent alterations to business or other accounts
- costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
- countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
- cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
- hors de combat — disabled or injured
- introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
- john constable — John, 1776–1837, English painter.
- john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
- non-subjective — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- noncombustible — not flammable.
- nonjusticiable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
- nonobjectivism — (philosophy) Any belief system that rejects objectivism.
- nonobjectivist — (philosophy) One who is not an objectivist.
- nonobstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- nonobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- noticeableness — The quality of being noticeable.
- objective case — objective (def 2a).
- objective lens — objective (def 3).
- objective test — a test consisting of factual questions requiring extremely short answers that can be quickly and unambiguously scored by anyone with an answer key, thus minimizing subjective judgments by both the person taking the test and the person scoring it.
- objective-case — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- objective-lens — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- objectlessness — The state or condition of being objectless.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted