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9-letter words containing c, u, b

  • club deal — a takeover bid in which several private-equity companies form a syndicate to acquire a target company
  • club foot — If someone has a club foot, they are born with a badly twisted foot.
  • club hand — a deformity of the hand, analogous to club foot
  • club moss — any mosslike tracheophyte plant of the phylum Lycopodophyta, having erect or creeping stems covered with tiny overlapping leaves
  • club root — a disease of plants of the cabbage family, caused by a slime mold (Plasmodiophora brassicae) and characterized by swellings of the roots
  • club soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
  • club sofa — a heavily upholstered sofa having solid sides and a low back.
  • club-foot — a knoblike foot formed from the end of a cabriole leg as a continuation of its lines: less flat than a pad foot but otherwise similar.
  • clubbable — A clubbable person is friendly and likes being with other people, which makes them good members of social clubs.
  • clubfaces — Plural form of clubface.
  • clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
  • clubhouse — A clubhouse is a place where the members of a club, especially a sports club, meet.
  • clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
  • clubrooms — Plural form of clubroom.
  • clubwoman — a woman who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
  • clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
  • cobaltous — of or containing cobalt in the divalent state
  • cocklebur — any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium, having spiny burs: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • code blue — (often initial capital letters) a medical emergency in which paramedics are dispatched to aid a person undergoing cardiac arrest.
  • coenobium — a monastery or convent
  • colubriad — a poem about a snake
  • colubrine — of or resembling a snake
  • columbary — a dovecote
  • columbate — any salt of columbic acid
  • columbian — of or relating to the United States
  • columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
  • columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
  • columbium — niobium
  • columbous — niobous.
  • combretum — any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Combretum, native mainly to tropical and subtropical Africa and producing attractive flowers
  • combusted — Simple past tense and past participle of combust.
  • combustor — the combustion system of a jet engine or ramjet, comprising the combustion chamber, the fuel injection apparatus, and the igniter
  • concubine — In former times, a concubine was a woman who lived with and had a sexual relationship with a man of higher social rank without being married to him.
  • connubial — of or relating to marriage; conjugal
  • corbicula — pollen basket.
  • corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
  • coulibiac — a Russian dish of rich pastry with a filling of salmon or other fish and mushrooms, onions, egg, buckwheat, dill, etc.
  • coulombic — relating to the discoveries of Charles Augustin de Coulomb
  • countable — capable of being counted
  • countably — in a countable manner
  • countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
  • courbaril — a tropical American leguminous tree, Hymenaea courbaril. Its wood is a useful timber and its gum is a source of copal
  • courbette — A movement in dressage in which the horse makes a series of jumps on the hind legs with the forelegs in the air.
  • cowabunga — Used to express delight or satisfaction.
  • cowboy up — to adopt a tough approach or course of action
  • cribellum — a sievelike spinning organ in certain spiders that occurs between the spinnerets
  • cropbound — (of poultry) having a congested crop
  • crossbuck — (in the US) a white cross-shaped road sign used at railway crossings
  • crotonbug — species of cockroach
  • crucibles — Plural form of crucible.
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