12-letter words containing a, b, i
- aeroembolism — an embolism of air bubbles often caused by surgery, induced abortion, or decompression sickness
- afro-british — of or relating to British people of African descent
- afterburning — a process in which additional fuel is ignited in the exhaust gases of a jet engine to produce additional thrust
- agglutinable — Able to be agglutinated; that readily undergoes agglutination.
- agreeability — an agreeable disposition
- agribusiness — Agribusiness is the various businesses that produce, sell, and distribute farm products, especially on a large scale.
- agrobusiness — the businesses collectively associated with the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products.
- aichmophobia — the fear of pointed objects, esp needles, pins, etc
- aid climbing — climbing that employs mechanical devices (aids) to accomplish difficult manoeuvres (artificial moves)
- ailurophobes — Plural form of ailurophobe.
- ailurophobia — an abnormal fear of cats
- ailurophobic — relating to ailurophobia
- air embolism — the presence in the tissues and blood of a gas, such as air or nitrogen bubbles, caused by an injection of air or, in the case of nitrogen, by an abrupt and substantial reduction in the ambient pressure
- air observer — observer (def 3).
- air-breather — an aircraft, missile, or submarine engine that requires air from the atmosphere for the combustion of its fuel.
- air-sea base — a centre from which military aircraft and naval vessels operate
- airbrush out — to remove evidence of (someone or something from photographs, books, or history)
- alberti bass — a reiterated broken-chord figure used as an accompaniment, especially in 18th-century rococo keyboard music.
- albumenizing — Present participle of albumenize.
- albuminoidal — (chemistry) Of the nature of an albuminoid.
- aldebaranium — (chemistry, obsolete) A rejected name for ytterbium.
- aliasing bug — stale pointer bug
- alienability — (uncountable) The quality of being alienable.
- alkalifiable — Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.
- alloantibody — an antibody that reacts with an antigen from a genetically different individual of the same species.
- allowability — The state of being allowable; legitimacy; permissibleness.
- alpha boötis — Arcturus
- alphabetical — Alphabetical means arranged according to the normal order of the letters in the alphabet.
- alphabetised — (British) Arranged in alphabetical order.
- alphabetiser — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of alphabetizer.
- alphabetized — (North America) Arranged in alphabetical order.
- alphabetizer — to put or arrange in alphabetical order.
- alphabetizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alphabetize.
- alterability — capable of being altered.
- ambartsumian — Viktor A(mazaspovich). 1908–96, Armenian astrophysicist, renowned for his description of radio sources as explosions in the core of galaxies
- ambidextrous — Someone who is ambidextrous can use both their right hand and their left hand equally skilfully.
- ambiposition — (linguistics) An adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.
- ambisextrous — Informal. sexually attracted to both sexes; bisexual. used by or suitable for either sex; unisex: ambisextrous hair styles.
- ambisinister — clumsy or unskillful with both hands.
- ambisyllabic — (of a single speech sound or cluster) shared phonetically by two contiguous syllables, as the single n -sound of any or the pl -cluster of grappling.
- ambitendency — ambivalence, especially when acted out; a tendency to contradictory behavior arising from conflicting impulses.
- ambitionless — without ambition, unambitious
- ambivalently — in an ambivalent manner
- amboina wood — the hard, heavy wood of a tree, Pterocarpus indicus, of southern Asia, having a curly or mottled grain.
- ambrettolide — a colorless liquid, C 16 H 28 O 2 , having a strong musky odor, used as a fixative in the manufacture of perfume.
- ambulatories — Plural form of ambulatory.
- ambulatorily — By or in terms of walking.
- amicableness — The state or quality of being amicable.
- aminobenzene — aniline (def 1).
- aminobenzoic — as in aminobenzoic acid