13-letter words containing c, p, b
- cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
- chamber opera — an opera requiring few performers and a small orchestra.
- chlorophyll-b — the green coloring matter of leaves and plants, essential to the production of carbohydrates by photosynthesis, and occurring in a bluish-black form, C 55 H 72 MgN 4 O 5 (chlorophyll a) and a dark-green form, C 55 H 70 MgN 4 O 6 (chlorophyll b)
- clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
- colonel blimp — an elderly, pompous British reactionary, especially an army officer or government official.
- combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
- compact cobol — (language) A subset of COBOL defined, but not published, ca. 1961.
- companionable — If you describe a person as companionable, you mean they are friendly and pleasant to be with.
- companionably — possessing the qualities of a good companion; pleasant to be with; congenial.
- comparability — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- compatability — Misspelling of compatibility.
- compatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibilist — (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibility — compatible
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- computability — (computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
- computerphobe — a person with a strong fear or dislike of computers
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
- counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
- crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
- culpabilities — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
- deceptibility — the ability to be deceived
- deception bed — any of various kinds of concealed or disguised beds designed in the 18th century.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
- duplicability — The quality of being duplicable.
- encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.
- exceptionable — Open to objection; causing disapproval or offense.
- explicability — The state of being explicable.
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
- gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
- 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.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hypercinnabar — (mineral) A form of cinnabar that forms hexagonal crystals.