12-letter words containing a, b, i
- carriageable — (of a road, etc) able to be travelled in a carriage
- carrick bend — type of knot
- carrick bitt — either of a pair of strong posts used for supporting a windlass
- carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
- catbird seat — an enviable position, as of power
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- cebocephalic — Exhibiting or relating to cebocephaly.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- celebreality — a television genre that is unscripted and involves either the day-to-day documentation of a celebrity’s life or competitive challenges that a celebrity or celebrities must perform
- celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
- cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
- cerebrotonia — a personality type characterized by restraint, alertness, and an intellectual approach to life: said to be correlated with an ectomorph body type
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
- changing bag — a lightproof bag with openings made to fit closely around the arms, used in place of a darkroom in some photographic procedures.
- charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
- chenin blanc — a white grape grown in the Loire region of France and in South Africa, California, New Zealand, and elsewhere, used for making wine
- cherubically — In a cherubic way.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- child labour — the full-time employment of children below a minimum age laid down by statute
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chinaberries — Plural form of chinaberry.
- chinning bar — a piece of equipment used for doing pull-ups
- chlorambucil — an alkylating drug derived from nitrogen mustard, administered orally in the treatment of leukaemia and other malignant diseases. Formula: C14H19Cl2NO2
- chromophobia — Lb biology The quality of being resistant to staining.
- chronophobia — Fear of the passing of time, or more generally of time itself.
- ciliary body — the part of the vascular tunic of the eye that connects the choroid with the iris
- cinnamon bun — a honey bun flavored with cinnamon and often containing raisins.
- circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
- circumbinary — (astronomy) Of, pertaining to, or having an orbit around a binary star.
- circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- classifiable — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
- clavicembalo — a harpsichord.
- clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
- cleanability — the ability to be cleaned
- clickability — (computing) The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked.
- clubbability — The quality of being clubbable.
- coachability — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- coccobacilli — a spherelike bacillus.
- cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
- cohabitating — cohabit.
- cohabitation — the state or condition of living together in a conjugal relationship without being married
- colacobiosis — (among social insects) life in which one species lives as a parasite in the community of another species.
- combat knife — a large knife for military use