13-letter words containing s, a, b, c
- classic blues — a type of city blues performed by a female singer accompanied by a small group
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- cleavableness — the quality of being cleavable
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
- cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate
- coccobacillus — a spherelike bacillus.
- collaborators — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
- combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
- combativeness — The state of being combative.
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- compatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibilist — (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
- confiscatable — confiscable
- console table — a table with one or more curved legs of bracket-like construction, designed to stand against a wall
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- constrainable — able to be constrained
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- contabescence — (of an anther) the condition of being unable to produce pollen
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrabandist — a person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
- contrabassist — Someone who plays the contrabass.
- contrabassoon — the largest instrument in the oboe family, pitched an octave below the bassoon; double bassoon
- 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.
- 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.
- crash barrier — A crash barrier is a strong low fence built along the side of a road or between the two halves of a motorway in order to prevent accidents.
- 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.
- cross the bar — to die
- crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
- crystal habit — the external shape of a crystal
- cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
- culpabilities — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- 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
- cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
- cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.