12-letter words containing a, b, c, u, s
- cut fastball — a fastball that breaks somewhat like a curve ball, due to increased pressure from the tip of the middle finger.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- gas bacillus — any of several pathogenic bacilli, especially of the genus Clostridium, that produce gas in infected tissue.
- in substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- incunabulist — a person who specialises in incunabula, a collector of incunabula
- inexcuseable — Alternative form of inexcusable.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- just because — for the sole reason that
- knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
- labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
- lactalbumins — Plural form of lactalbumin.
- lobeliaceous — belonging to the plant family Lobeliaceae.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- macaberesque — resembling or suggestive of the danse macabre; macabre
- marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
- noctambulism — somnambulism.
- noctambulist — somnambulism.
- noctambulous — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- obfuscations — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
- of substance — wealthy
- orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
- osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
- pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
- 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.
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rambus, inc. — (company) The company which designed Rambus DRAM. Address: Mountain View, CA., USA.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- sanctus bell — a bell rung during the celebration of Mass to call attention to the more solemn parts.
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.