13-letter words containing o, b, s, c
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- carbonisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of carbonization.
- casual labour — people who are employed on a temporary, rather than a permanent or regular basis
- catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
- chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- checkerblooms — Plural form of checkerbloom.
- chinese block — a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block played with a drumstick
- chinese boxes — a nest of boxes, each of which fits into the next larger box
- christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
- clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate
- coccobacillus — a spherelike bacillus.
- collaborators — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
- combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
- combativeness — The state of being combative.
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- come to blows — to fight
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
- 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.
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- confiscatable — confiscable
- congress boot — a high shoe with an elastic insert in each side
- console table — a table with one or more curved legs of bracket-like construction, designed to stand against a wall
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- constrainable — able to be constrained
- constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.