0%

13-letter words containing t, o, b

  • campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
  • capitate bone — the largest and central bone of the carpus, articulating with the second, third, and fourth metacarpal bones.
  • car boot sale — A car boot sale is a sale where people sell things they own and do not want from a little stall or from the back of their car.
  • carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
  • 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 offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
  • 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.
  • carbonisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of carbonization.
  • carbonization — Carbonization is a process in which a fuel is heated without air to leave solid porous carbon.
  • carbonneutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
  • 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
  • carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
  • carburization — Impregnation or reaction with carbon, especially in the manufacture of steel.
  • caribou inuit — a member of any of the Inuit peoples who formerly inhabited the Barren Lands of N Canada
  • carlton table — an English writing table of c1800, having curved rear corners and a top with drawers surmounted by a U -shaped section of drawers and cabinets, topped by a brass or ormolu gallery surrounding three sides of the writing area.
  • carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
  • catabolically — In terms of catabolism.
  • catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
  • chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
  • charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
  • chocolate bar — a block of chocolate
  • chocolate-box — Chocolate-box places or images are very pretty but in a boring or conventional way.
  • christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
  • chukka (boot) — an ankle-high bootlike shoe, usually with two or three pairs of eyelets
  • circuit board — A circuit board is the same as a printed circuit board.
  • circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
  • clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
  • clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
  • club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
  • coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
  • coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
  • cobalt yellow — aureolin.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
  • cocaine habit — an addiction to cocaine
  • codifiability — the quality of being codifiable
  • 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.
  • collaborative — A collaborative piece of work is done by two or more people or groups working together.
  • collaborators — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • collar button — the button used to fasten the collar down on a garment
  • 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
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?