12-letter words containing a, b, i
- approbations — approval; commendation.
- appropriable — that can be appropriated
- arabia felix — an ancient division of Arabia, in the S part: sometimes restricted to Yemen.
- arabian gulf — an arm of the Arabian Sea, between SW Iran and Arabia. 600 miles (965 km) long.
- arabica bean — a high-quality coffee bean, obtained from the tree Coffea arabica
- aramid fiber — a fiber having resistance to high temperatures and great strength, formed from an aramid and used in materials for bulletproof vests and radial tires.
- arbitrageurs — Plural form of arbitrageur.
- arbitrations — Plural form of arbitration.
- arborio rice — variety of round-grain rice used for making risotto
- arborization — a branching treelike appearance in certain fossils and minerals
- archibenthos — the ocean bottom between the littoral and abyssal zones: from depths of approximately 200 feet (60 meters) to 3300 feet (1000 meters).
- archiblastic — of, relating to, or derived from an archiblast.
- area bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped over the general area of a target.
- arousability — to stimulate sexually.
- arquebusiers — harquebusier.
- art mobilier — small, movable art objects, especially primitive or prehistoric works of art.
- ashurbanipal — died ?626 bc, king of Assyria (?668–?626): son of Esarhaddon. He built the magnificent palace and library at Nineveh
- assassin bug — any long-legged predatory, often blood-sucking, insect of the heteropterous family Reduviidae
- assemblagist — a creative person or artist who is skilled in putting together works of art based on assemblage
- assibilation — (linguistics) A sound change resulting in a sibilant consonant, commonly the final phase of palatalization.
- assumability — a mortgage loan or a feature of such that allows the buyer of a property to assume or take on the existing mortgage from the property seller
- assurbanipal — Ashurbanipal
- astonishable — (obsolete) Astonishing.
- astrobiology — the branch of biology that investigates the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe
- atrabilarian — Characterized by melancholy or glum; atrabilarious; atrabilious.
- attributable — If something is attributable to an event, situation, or person, it is likely that it was caused by that event, situation or person.
- attributions — Plural form of attribution.
- atychiphobia — (rare) The fear of failure.
- authorizable — able to be authorized
- autoantibody — an antibody reacting with an antigen that is a part of the organism in which the antibody is formed
- automobiling — (dated) present participle of automobile.
- automobilism — the use of automobiles, or the practices associated with them
- automobilist — Driver; person who uses a motor vehicle such as car, van or truck.
- automobility — the use of motor cars
- availability — the quality or condition of being available
- avoidability — The possibility of avoiding; the state or condition of being avoidable.
- axel heiberg — the largest island belonging to the Sverdrup group in the Canadian Northwest Territories. 15,779 sq. mi. (40,868 sq. km).
- axillary bud — a bud that is borne at the axil of a leaf and is capable of developing into a branch shoot or flower cluster.
- b'nai b'rith — a Jewish fraternal organization founded in New York in 1843, having moral, philanthropic, social, educational, and political aims
- b-s particle — a neutral meson with a mass 10,507 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.6 X 10 -12 seconds.
- babe-in-arms — a young baby that has to be carried
- babian jiang — a river in S China, flowing SE to the Red River in N Vietnam. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- babingtonite — a rare, slightly magnetic, black or dark green silicate mineral, Ca2Fe2Si5O14OH, found in cavities in volcanic rock
- baby carrier — a kind of sling or rucksack used to carry small babies either on one's chest or one's back
- baby monitor — a device that transmits sounds made by a baby to another room
- bacchanalian — characterized by or involving drunken revelry
- bachelorship — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- back molding — a molding, as a backband, applied to interior window and door trim to conceal the edge of the wall surface.
- back-kitchen — a room off a main kitchen, usually further towards the back of the house where washing-up or preparatory cooking work might be done; a scullery
- back-patting — an act or instance of offering praise or congratulation: The winners indulged in a certain amount of mutual back-patting.