13-letter words containing o, b, t, a
- bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
- buoyancy tank — an enclosed air-filled section of a boat, ship or hovercraft designed to keep it afloat and prevent it from sinking
- buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
- buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
- busto arsizio — a city in Lombardy, N Italy.
- butanoic acid — kind of acid
- butyl alcohol — any of four isomeric alcohols, C4H9OH, obtained from petroleum products: used as solvents and in organic synthesis
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
- cainotophobia — Alternative form of cainophobia.
- campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
- capitate bone — the largest and central bone of the carpus, articulating with the second, third, and fourth metacarpal bones.
- car boot sale — A car boot sale is a sale where people sell things they own and do not want from a little stall or from the back of their car.
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
- carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
- carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- 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.
- carbonatation — saturation or reaction with carbon dioxide.
- carbonisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of carbonization.
- carbonization — Carbonization is a process in which a fuel is heated without air to leave solid porous carbon.
- carbonneutral — 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.
- carbonylation — the introduction of a carbonyl group into a compound through chemical reaction
- carboxylation — a chemical reaction that introduces a carboxyl group into a molecule or compound, forming a carboxylic acid or a carboxylate
- carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
- carburization — Impregnation or reaction with carbon, especially in the manufacture of steel.
- caribou inuit — a member of any of the Inuit peoples who formerly inhabited the Barren Lands of N Canada
- carlton table — an English writing table of c1800, having curved rear corners and a top with drawers surmounted by a U -shaped section of drawers and cabinets, topped by a brass or ormolu gallery surrounding three sides of the writing area.
- carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
- catabolically — In terms of catabolism.
- catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
- chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- chocolate bar — a block of chocolate
- chocolate-box — Chocolate-box places or images are very pretty but in a boring or conventional way.
- christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
- chukka (boot) — an ankle-high bootlike shoe, usually with two or three pairs of eyelets
- circuit board — A circuit board is the same as a printed circuit board.
- circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
- coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
- cobalt yellow — aureolin.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cocaine habit — an addiction to cocaine
- codifiability — the quality of being codifiable