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14-letter words containing e, c, b, a, t, n

  • budget account — an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his or her past and future purchases
  • burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
  • bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • can't help but — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • carbon capture — the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, esp as a technique to prevent climate change
  • carbon neutral — A carbon neutral lifestyle, company, or activity does not cause an increase in the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
  • carbon-neutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
  • carbonate rock — Carbonate rock is a sedimentary rock which is composed mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃).
  • carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • carrion beetle — any beetle of the family Silphidae that track carrion by a keen sense of smell
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
  • castelo branco — Humberto de Alencar [oon-ber-too di ah-len-kahr] /ũˈbɛr tʊ dɪ ɑ lɛ̃ˈkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1900–67, Brazilian general and statesman: president 1964–67.
  • celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
  • charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
  • cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
  • circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
  • citizens' band — Citizens' Band is a range of radio frequencies which the general public is allowed to use to send messages to each other and is used especially by truck drivers in their vehicles. The abbreviation CB is often used.
  • cognate object — a noun functioning as the object of a verb to which it is etymologically related, as in think a thought or sing a song
  • combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
  • commentary box — the place where the commentators on a sporting event sit
  • compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
  • concealability — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
  • conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
  • concelebration — the celebration of a Eucharist or Mass by two or more members of the clergy.
  • connectability — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
  • conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • contact number — a person's telephone number
  • containerboard — a form of paperboard, either corrugated or solid, that is used to make containers
  • contemplatable — That can be contemplated.
  • contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
  • contradictable — Capable of being contradicted.
  • corner cabinet — a cabinet, usually triangular in design so as to fit into a corner of a room.
  • corporate bond — a bond issued by a corporation in order to increase its capital
  • countable noun — A countable noun is the same as a count noun.
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
  • cranberry tree — highbush cranberry.
  • credence table — a small sideboard, originally one at which food was tasted for poison before serving
  • credit balance — the amount of money that a client of a financial institution has in his or her account, in securities, etc
  • creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
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