12-letter words containing a, b, e, c
- embranchment — A branching forth, as of trees for example.
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
- enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
- encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- enterobacter — Any bacterium of the genus Enterobacter.
- exacerbating — Present participle of exacerbate.
- exacerbation — An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease).
- exchangeable — Able to be exchanged.
- excitability — (uncountable) The state of being excitable.
- 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.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
- file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
- finance bill — a bill or act of a legislature to obtain funds for the public treasury.
- 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.
- 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.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
- 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).
- garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- head balance — headstand.
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- hull balance — (of a sailing ship) the property of maintaining satisfactory trim and steering qualities when heeled at a normal angle.
- hyperbolical — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.