14-letter words containing o, b
- 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
- correctability — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- corroborations — Plural form of corroboration.
- corruptibility — that can or might be corrupted.
- costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
- cotton batting — cotton wadding, as used in quilt making
- cottony jujube — an Indian evergreen shrub or small tree, Ziziphus mauritiana, of the buckthorn family, having leaves that are rusty-hairy on the underside and small, round, red, acid fruit.
- council bluffs — city in SW Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebr.: pop. 58,000
- countable noun — A countable noun is the same as a count noun.
- countably many — countable
- counter-boulle — contre-partie.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
- countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
- county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
- court cupboard — a wooden stand with two or three tiers, used in the 16th and 17th centuries to display pewter, silver, etc
- court-bouillon — a stock made from root vegetables, water, and wine or vinegar, used primarily for poaching fish
- covered bridge — a bridge that is enclosed by a roof and walls.
- coxcombicality — the quality of being coxcombical
- cracker bonbon — a thin, crisp biscuit.
- craniocerebral — relating to both the cranium and the cerebrum
- cribbage board — a board, with pegs and holes, used for scoring at cribbage
- crocodile bird — an African courser, Pluvianus aegyptius, that lives close to rivers and is thought to feed on insects parasitic on crocodiles
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- cross bridging — bridging composed of crisscross pieces of wood.
- cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
- crossbolt lock — a lock controlling two bolts moving in opposite directions, as to the top and bottom of a doorframe.
- crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
- cryobiological — of or relating to cryobiology
- cubic zirconia — a synthetic crystalline compound of zirconium oxide, fashioned to resemble diamonds, etc.
- cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
- cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
- cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyanocobalamin — a complex red crystalline compound, containing cyanide and cobalt and occurring in liver: lack of it in the tissues leads to pernicious anaemia. Formula: C63H88O14N14PCo
- cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
- cyberdemocracy — Democracy as facilitated by the Internet or cyberspace.
- cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
- cyclobarbitone — a barbiturate derivative drug used as a sedative and hypnotic
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- cylinder block — the metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling channels or fins of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
- darby and joan — an ideal elderly married couple living in domestic harmony
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- debenture bond — a corporate bond unsecured by any mortgage, dependent on the credit of the issuer.
- debt collector — a person that collects debts on behalf of creditors
- debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
- debugging tool — debugger