14-letter words containing t, i, b, o, a
- cardboard city — an area of a city in which homeless people sleep rough, often in cardboard boxes
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- carrion beetle — any beetle of the family Silphidae that track carrion by a keen sense of smell
- cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- cocktail table — a low table as for serving refreshments, esp. one in a living room
- collaborations — Plural form of collaboration.
- collapsibility — (uncountable) The condition of being collapsible (or collapsable).
- combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
- combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
- comfortability — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
- compactibility — capable of being compacted: compactible rubbish.
- compatibilists — Plural form of compatibilist.
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
- compostability — The quality of being compostable.
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- concealability — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
- concelebration — the celebration of a Eucharist or Mass by two or more members of the clergy.
- confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
- confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
- conformability — Conformableness.
- conglobulation — the act of conglobing
- connectability — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
- conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- consubstantial — (esp of the three persons of the Trinity) regarded as identical in substance or essence though different in aspect
- contact binary — a binary system in which the envelopes of gas surrounding each star are in contact.
- containerboard — a form of paperboard, either corrugated or solid, that is used to make containers
- contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
- contrabandists — Plural form of contrabandist.
- contradictable — Capable of being contradicted.
- contributional — the act of contributing.
- corner cabinet — a cabinet, usually triangular in design so as to fit into a corner of a room.
- correctability — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- corroborations — Plural form of corroboration.
- cotton batting — cotton wadding, as used in quilt making
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- coxcombicality — the quality of being coxcombical
- cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
- cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyclobarbitone — a barbiturate derivative drug used as a sedative and hypnotic