11-letter words containing c, o, u, r, b
- carburettor — A carburettor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and petrol are mixed together to form a vapour which can be burned.
- cerebellous — of or relating to the cerebellum
- church book — any of various books commonly used by a church, as a service book or a parish register.
- clenbuterol — a drug prescribed for breathing disorders
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
- code number — a number used to identify something
- cold rubber — synthetic rubber made at low temperatures (about 5°C). It is stronger than that made at higher temperatures and is used for car tyres
- colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
- colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour
- colubriform — shaped like or resembling a member of the Colubridae family of snakes
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns
- columbiform — Having the form of a dove or pigeon.
- concubinary — of, relating to, or living in concubinage.
- conquerable — Capable of being conquered or subdued.
- construable — that can be construed
- contributed — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contributer — Misspelling of contributor.
- contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
- contributor — You can use contributor to refer to one of the causes of an event or situation, especially if that event or situation is an unpleasant one.
- control bus — (architecture) In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
- contubernal — occupying the same tent
- conurbation — A conurbation consists of a large city together with the smaller towns around it.
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
- cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
- corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
- corruptible — susceptible to corruption; capable of being corrupted
- cougar bait — a younger man who is often pursued by older women seeking a sexual relationship: We all agreed he was prime cougar bait.
- counterbase — a double bass
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- counterblow — a retaliatory blow
- counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
- counterbore — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
- counterbuff — a retaliatory blow
- course book — A course book is a textbook that students and teachers use as the basis of a course.
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- crazy about — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
- doxorubicin — a cytotoxic antibiotic, C 27 H 29 NO 11 , derived from a variety of the bacterium Streptomyces peucetius and used in the treatment of sarcoma, malignant lymphoma, acute leukemia, and other cancers.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- four-h club — an organization sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, established chiefly to instruct young people, originally in rural areas, in modern farming methods and other useful skills, as carpentry and home economics.
- labour camp — A labour camp is a kind of prison, where the prisoners are forced to do hard, physical work, usually outdoors.
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- 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.
- lucubratory — Composed by candlelight, or at night.
- lumbosacral — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- microbubble — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.