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14-letter words containing o, n, b

  • bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
  • burying ground — a burial ground.
  • business hours — Business hours are the hours of the day in which a shop or a company is open for business.
  • businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
  • businessperson — Businesspeople are people who work in business.
  • bust one's ass — Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort: She was determined to make straight A's or bust.
  • butterfly knot — a particularly resistant knot which resembles a butterfly and can take loads on both ends, as well as on the loop
  • button-through — (of a dress or skirt) fastened with buttons from top to hem
  • butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
  • by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
  • by acclamation — by an overwhelming majority without a ballot
  • by appointment — If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.
  • 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.
  • by the vanload — in very large quantities
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • 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.
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • 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.
  • chronobiologic — relating to chronobiology
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • climbing irons — spiked steel frames worn on the feet to assist in climbing trees, ice slopes, etc
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • coconut butter — a solid form of coconut oil
  • cognate object — a noun functioning as the object of a verb to which it is etymologically related, as in think a thought or sing a song
  • cognoscibility — capable of being known.
  • coinage bronze — an alloy of 95 percent copper, 4 percent tin, and 1 percent zinc.
  • collaborations — Plural form of collaboration.
  • collecting box — a box for the temporary storage of examples or specimens
  • collection box — A collection box is a box or tin that is used to collect money for charity.
  • colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
  • colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
  • colorblindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
  • coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
  • combinableness — The quality or state of being combinable.
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