12-letter words containing n, c, b
- chronophobia — Fear of the passing of time, or more generally of time itself.
- cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
- cinnamon bun — a honey bun flavored with cinnamon and often containing raisins.
- circumbinary — (astronomy) Of, pertaining to, or having an orbit around a binary star.
- cirl bunting — a European passerine bird Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family Emberizidae
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- clara barton — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
- clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
- clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
- cleanability — the ability to be cleaned
- climbingfish — climbing perch.
- cloud banner — banner cloud.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
- cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
- cobblestoned — Cobbled; laid with cobblestones.
- cobblestones — Plural form of cobblestone.
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- coconut crab — a large, terrestrial crab, Birgus latro, of islands in the South Pacific, that feeds on coconuts.
- coffee beans — the beanlike seeds of the coffee tree, which are roasted and ground to make coffee
- cohabitating — cohabit.
- cohabitation — the state or condition of living together in a conjugal relationship without being married
- collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
- colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- combat pants — trousers: military style
- combinations — a one-piece woollen undergarment with long sleeves and legs
- come between — If someone or something comes between two people, or comes between a person and a thing, they make the relationship or connection between them less close or happy.
- common zebra — Equus burchelli, the most common type of zebra
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- complainable — That may be complained of.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- concelebrant — each of the priests celebrating the Eucharist or Mass jointly
- concelebrate — to celebrate (the Eucharist or Mass) jointly with one or more other priests
- concubitancy — a custom requiring marriage between two people, esp a custom requiring a woman to marry her husband's brother on her husband's death
- confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
- confabulator — to converse informally; chat.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conglobation — Formation into a ball, globe or rounded mass.
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- connubialism — the state of being married
- connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
- conscionable — acceptable to one's conscience
- conscionably — being in conformity with one's conscience; just.
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
- contabescent — unable to produce pollen
- contaminable — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.