12-letter words containing a, b, e, r
- 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.
- provableness — the quality of being provable
- proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
- pulp chamber — the crown portion of the pulp cavity.
- pulverizable — that can be pulverized
- quarter bend — a 90° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- rabbet joint — a joint between rabbeted parts.
- rabbet plane — a plane for cutting rabbets or the like, having a blade set to one side at right angles or diagonally to the direction of motion.
- rabbit fever — tularemia.
- rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
- rabble-rouse — to stir up the emotions or prejudices of the public; agitate.
- 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.
- rag business — the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.
- ragged robin — a plant, Lychnis flos-cuculi, of the pink family, having pink or white flowers with dissected petals.
- raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
- raisin bread — dough baked with dried grapes
- rating badge — a badge that indicates the rank and specialty of a petty officer: worn on the upper left sleeve.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- re-calibrate — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- re-establish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- re-stabilize — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
- reachability — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
- reaching jib — genoa.
- reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
- reassemblage — a new or further gathering or collection
- reattributed — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- recalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- recalibrates — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- recarburizer — to add carbon to (steel), as in an open-hearth furnace, as by adding pig iron.
- rechargeable — (of a storage battery) capable of being charged repeatedly. Compare cordless (def 2).
- 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
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
- red brigades — an extreme leftist terrorist organization in Italy.
- reed warbler — a small Old World warbler, Acrocephalus scirpaceus, inhabiting marshy places.
- registerable — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- regular verb — verb that follows standard conjugation
- rehabilitant — a person who is undergoing rehabilitation, especially for a physical disability.
- rehabilitate — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- rehydratable — capable of being rehydrated
- reimbursable — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- relatability — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- rememberable — to recall to the mind by an act or effort of memory; think of again: I'll try to remember the exact date.