10-Letter Words Containing: C,O,R,B,A,N

• unite with carbon

• turn into carbon, as by burning

• a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits

• erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries

• Any animal with a thorny back, especially marine animals, such as:

• A woman over a certain age (variously 26 or 30) who has never married, older than a spinster.

• a person's social heritage: previous experience or training

• the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground

• information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

• extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

• relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation

• the state of the environment in which a situation exists

• (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

• scenery hung at back of stage

• understate the importance or quality of

• a strip of land running along a beach

• a defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers

• a small board full of holes; each hole contains a slip of paper with symbols printed on it; a gambler pays a small sum for the privilege of pushing out a slip in the hope of obtaining one that entitles him to a prize

• the property of being absorbent