12-letter words containing r, i, b, n
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
- cantabrigian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Cambridge or Cambridge University, or of Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Harvard University
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- carbocations — Plural form of carbocation.
- carbocholine — carbachol.
- carbon fiber — a very strong, lightweight synthetic fiber used in protective clothing, spacecraft components, racing shells, etc.
- carbon fibre — a black silky thread of pure carbon made by heating and stretching textile fibres and used because of its lightness and strength at high temperatures for reinforcing resins, ceramics, and metals, esp in turbine blades and for fishing rods
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
- cardigan bay — an inlet of St George's Channel, on the W coast of Wales
- carolina bay — any of the shallow, usually marshy, oval depressions found in the coastal plains of the eastern U.S. that are heavily forested and have rich soil.
- carrick bend — type of knot
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
- cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
- cerebrotonia — a personality type characterized by restraint, alertness, and an intellectual approach to life: said to be correlated with an ectomorph body type
- cerebrotonic — relating to or resembling a personality type characterized by shyness, introspection, and emotional restraint, and often associated with an ectomorphic physique
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chinaberries — Plural form of chinaberry.
- chinese burn — a minor torture inflicted by twisting the skin of a person's wrist or arm in two different directions simultaneously
- chinning bar — a piece of equipment used for doing pull-ups
- chronophobia — Fear of the passing of time, or more generally of time itself.
- cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
- circumbinary — (astronomy) Of, pertaining to, or having an orbit around a binary star.
- cirl bunting — a European passerine bird Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family Emberizidae
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- contractible — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- contributary — contributory
- contributers — Misspelling of contributors.
- contributing — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contribution — If you make a contribution to something, you do something to help make it successful or to produce it.
- contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contributors — Plural form of contributor.
- contributory — A contributory factor of a problem or accident is one of the things which caused it to exist or happen.
- conurbations — Plural form of conurbation.
- convertibles — Plural form of convertible.
- corn bunting — a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)
- corncob pipe — a pipe made from a dried corncob
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- credibleness — The state or quality of being credible.
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood