12-letter words containing a, b, m
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- homo habilis — an extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics, dated as being from about 1.5 million to more than 2 million years old and proposed as an early form of Homo leading to modern humans.
- hop hornbeam — any of several Eurasian and North American trees of the genus Ostrya, of the birch family, especially O. virginiana, bearing hoplike fruiting clusters.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- icbm address — (networking, humour) (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
- illiberalism — narrowminded; bigoted.
- imbibitional — relating to imbibition
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- immovability — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- immutability — not mutable; unchangeable; changeless.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- impenetrable — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- impenetrably — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- impierceable — not able to be pierced
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- imputability — The character of being imputable.
- in mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- inadmissible — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
- inadmissibly — In an inadmissible way.
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incommutably — In an incommutable manner.
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incomparably — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incompatible — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incompatibly — In an incompatible manner.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- incomputably — In an incomputable way.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incumbrancer — (legal) One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- ineliminable — Unable to be eliminated.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- innominables — trousers
- interminable — incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
- interminably — incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
- irredeemable — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.
- irredeemably — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.
- irreformable — insusceptible to reforming influences; incorrigible.