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13-letter words containing o, s, b

  • contrabassist — Someone who plays the contrabass.
  • contrabassoon — the largest instrument in the oboe family, pitched an octave below the bassoon; double bassoon
  • contributions — Plural form of contribution.
  • controllables — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • core business — the business activity that is main source of a company's profits and success, usually the activity that the company was originally set up to carry out
  • core subjects — three foundation subjects (English, mathematics, and science) that are compulsory throughout each key stage in the National Curriculum
  • corrosibility — corrodibility
  • cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
  • coulomb's law — the principle that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. A similar law holds for particles with mass
  • counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
  • country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
  • crash blossom — an ambiguously worded headline whose meaning can be interpreted in the wrong way, as “Missing Woman Remains Found.”. See also garden-path.
  • crayola books — (publication)   A humorous and/or disparaging term for the rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards. See also Orange Book.
  • creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
  • cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
  • cross the bar — to die
  • cross-benches — (in the UK parliament) an area for members who are not allied to a particular party
  • cross-buttock — a wrestling throw in which the hips are used as a fulcrum to throw an opponent
  • crossbenchers — Plural form of crossbencher.
  • crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
  • cryobiologist — A biologist who specializes in cryobiology.
  • customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
  • cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
  • cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
  • danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
  • decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
  • deely boppers — hairband with two bobbing antennae-like attachments
  • deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
  • desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
  • desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
  • diabetologist — a person who studies diabetes
  • diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
  • disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
  • discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
  • disembodiment — to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
  • disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
  • disembowelled — (chiefly, British) Simple past tense and past participle of disembowel.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
  • disinhibition — Psychology. a temporary loss of inhibition caused by an outside stimulus.
  • disinhibitory — (esp of a drug) causing temporary loss of inhibition
  • disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
  • disobligation — the state of being without obligation
  • disobligatory — not obligatory
  • disobligement — disobligation
  • disobligingly — So as to disoblige.
  • dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
  • disponibility — Availability.
  • disposability — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
  • dissolubility — The capability to be dissolved or disintegrated.
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