13-letter words containing r, i, b, o, n
- 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.
- cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
- carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- 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 ribbon — the ribbon in a typewriter which contains the ink which produces the letters on paper
- 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.
- carbonic acid — a weak acid formed when carbon dioxide combines with water: obtained only in aqueous solutions, never in the pure state. Formula: H2CO3
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- carbonisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of carbonization.
- carbonium ion — type of positively charged organic ion
- carbonization — Carbonization is a process in which a fuel is heated without air to leave solid porous carbon.
- 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
- carburization — Impregnation or reaction with carbon, especially in the manufacture of steel.
- carcinophobia — Inordinate dread of contracting cancer.
- caribou inuit — a member of any of the Inuit peoples who formerly inhabited the Barren Lands of N Canada
- cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
- chronobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the periodicity occurring in living organisms
- cinchona bark — the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
- cinnamon bear — a reddish-brown variety of the American black bear
- climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- collaboration — Collaboration is the act of working together to produce a piece of work, especially a book or some research.
- coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
- combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- constrainable — able to be constrained
- constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrabandist — a person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
- contrabassist — Someone who plays the contrabass.
- contraorbital — of or relating to flight in the orbit of, but in a direction contrary to, a given rocket, ballistic missile, satellite, etc.
- contributable — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contribute to — to have a share in bringing about (a result); be partly responsible for
- contributions — Plural form of contribution.
- cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
- 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
- corroborating — Present participle of corroborate.
- corroboration — the act of corroborating.
- councilmember — a member of a council, especially a legislative council.
- counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
- counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
- counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.