14-letter words containing n, c, b
- burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
- bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
- business class — Business class seating on an aeroplane costs less than first class but more than economy class.
- business cycle — the recurrent fluctuation between boom and depression in the economic activity of a capitalist country
- business lunch — a lunch at which business is discussed or transacted
- by acclamation — by an overwhelming majority without a ballot
- by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
- 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)
- cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
- calamine brass — an alloy of zinc carbonate and copper, formerly used to imitate gold.
- 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.
- canadian bacon — cured, smoked pork taken from the loin in a boneless strip and having a hamlike flavor
- carbon capture — the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, esp as a technique to prevent climate change
- carbon dioxide — Carbon dioxide is a gas. It is produced by animals and people breathing out, and by chemical reactions.
- 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 process — a photographic process for producing positive prints by exposing sensitized carbon tissue to light passing through a negative. Washing removes the unexposed gelatine leaving the pigmented image in the exposed insoluble gelatine
- carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
- 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).
- carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
- 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
- casino banking — an approach to banking which risks losing investors' money in the quest for maximizing profits
- 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
- changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
- 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.
- chinese banana — a large southern Chinese plant, Musa acuminata, of the banana family, having blue-green leaves, yellowish-white flowers with reddish-brown bracts, and fragrant, edible, curved fruit from 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 cm) long, often borne in clusters of 200.
- chopping block — a thick wooden board used for chopping vegetables, meat etc on
- chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- chronobiologic — relating to chronobiology
- cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
- circumbendibus — a circumlocution
- circumscribing — Present participle of circumscribe.
- 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.
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
- climbing irons — spiked steel frames worn on the feet to assist in climbing trees, ice slopes, etc
- climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
- cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.