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

  • dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
  • debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
  • decarbonated — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonize.
  • decarbonizer — One who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
  • decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
  • diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
  • diabolically — having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked: a diabolic plot.
  • diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
  • dicarboxylic — containing two carboxyl groups in the molecule
  • diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
  • direct labor — labor performed, as by workers on a production line, and considered in computing costs per unit of production.
  • discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
  • discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
  • dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
  • documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
  • domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • double-faced — practicing duplicity; hypocritical.
  • double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
  • drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • dutch harbor — a U.S. naval base on Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
  • ebracteolate — having no bractlets
  • echo chamber — a room or studio with resonant walls for broadcasting or recording echoes or hollow sound effects.
  • elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
  • elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
  • embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
  • enterobacter — Any bacterium of the genus Enterobacter.
  • exacerbation — An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease).
  • fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
  • facebook.com — (web)   One of the most popular social networking websites.
  • factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
  • factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
  • fall back on — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
  • fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
  • flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
  • flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
  • fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
  • forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
  • forebearance — Misspelling of forbearance.
  • forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
  • french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
  • functionable — functional (def 3).
  • futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
  • garbological — Of or relating to garbology.
  • geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
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