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12-letter words containing a, b, c, o

  • osteoblastic — a bone-forming cell.
  • outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
  • overabstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
  • overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
  • overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
  • overbearance — (rare, or, obsolete) Overbearing behaviour; arrogance; imperiousness.
  • panic button — an alarm button for use in an emergency, as to summon help.
  • paul-boncour — Joseph [zhaw-zef] /ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1873–1972, French lawyer and statesman: premier 1932–33.
  • pax vobiscum — peace be with you
  • peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
  • pipe tobacco — tobacco suitable for use in a tobacco pipe
  • plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
  • polysaprobic — flourishing in a body of water having a heavy load of decomposed organic matter and almost no free oxygen
  • polysyllabic — consisting of several, especially four or more, syllables, as a word.
  • postbiblical — occurring after the events written about in the Bible, occurring after the Bible was written
  • postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • procarbazine — a drug used in the treatment of cancer, esp lymphomas
  • proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
  • prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
  • protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
  • protuberancy — protuberance.
  • psychobabble — writing or talk using jargon from psychiatry or psychotherapy without particular accuracy or relevance.
  • radar beacon — a radar device at a fixed location that, on receiving a radar signal, automatically transmits a particular radar signal in reply, identifying itself and enabling navigators of ships and aircraft to determine their distance and direction from it.
  • radio beacon — a radio station that sends a characteristic signal so as to enable ships or airplanes to determine their position or bearing by means of a radio compass.
  • radio-carbon — Also called carbon 14. a radioactive isotope of carbon with mass number 14 and a half-life of about 5730 years: widely used in the dating of organic materials.
  • rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rattail comb — a comb for the hair having a narrow, pointed handle used in styling the hair.
  • recognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
  • record label — recorded music production company
  • renounceable — of a nature that can be renounced
  • reproachable — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
  • ribbon cable — (hardware)   A type of flat multicore cable with cores positioned side-by-side, making it quick and relatively easy to clamp an Insulation Displacement Connector (IDC) across all cores. Ribbon cables typically have grey insulation with cores on a 0.050" pitch and a red stripe marking Pin 1. They are less resilient than screened, multicore cable and are usually used inside equipment where little movement or plugging and unplugging are expected. A common use is connecting a disk drive to the motherboard in a PC.
  • ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
  • rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
  • saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • school board — a local board or committee in charge of public education.
  • scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
  • scraperboard — scratchboard.
  • scratchboard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
  • scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
  • scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
  • scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
  • secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
  • snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
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