13-letter words containing s, e, r, b, o, c
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
- clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- 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
- 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.
- cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate
- 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.
- comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
- congress boot — a high shoe with an elastic insert in each side
- constrainable — able to be constrained
- constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- 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
- counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
- country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
- 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
- crossbenchers — Plural form of crossbencher.
- crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- exacerbations — Plural form of exacerbation.
- exercise book — An exercise book is a small book that students use for writing in.
- garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
- global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
- hermosa beach — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed