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12-letter words containing r, i, c, e, b

  • cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
  • camber piece — a centering for a flat arch, slightly crowned to allow for settling of the arch.
  • cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
  • canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
  • captive-bred — bred in captivity
  • 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
  • carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
  • carriageable — (of a road, etc) able to be travelled in a carriage
  • carrick bend — type of knot
  • carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
  • catbird seat — an enviable position, as of power
  • celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
  • celebreality — a television genre that is unscripted and involves either the day-to-day documentation of a celebrity’s life or competitive challenges that a celebrity or celebrities must perform
  • celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
  • cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
  • cerebrosides — Plural form of cerebroside.
  • 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.
  • chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
  • cherry birch — sweet birch.
  • cherubically — In a cherubic way.
  • child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
  • childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
  • chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
  • 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
  • chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
  • cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
  • circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
  • circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
  • circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
  • cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
  • club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
  • coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
  • commiserable — worthy of commiseration; pitiable
  • compressible — If something is compressible, its volume can change when pressure is applied to it.
  • 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.
  • contributers — Misspelling of contributors.
  • contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • convertibles — Plural form of convertible.
  • coralberries — Plural form of coralberry.
  • corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
  • corncob pipe — a pipe made from a dried corncob
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