12-letter words containing a, b, n, e
- antebrachial — Lb anatomy relating to the forearm.
- antebrachium — (anatomy) The forearm.
- antechambers — Plural form of antechamber.
- anti-lebanon — a mountain range running north and south between Syria and Lebanon, east of the Lebanon Mountains. Highest peak: Mount Hermon, 2814 m (9232 ft)
- anti-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- antiberiberi — Countering beriberi.
- antibusiness — opposed to business interests, particularly those of large-scale corporations
- antidiabetes — Countering diabetes.
- antidiabetic — a drug which acts against diabetes
- antifebriles — Plural form of antifebrile.
- antimetabole — the repetition of words in reverse order for emphasis
- antiparabema — either of two chapels at the west end of an Armenian or Byzantine church.
- antisociable — Antisocial.
- antwerp blue — any of several iron-blue pigments, usually containing a considerable amount of extender.
- apple brandy — an alcoholic liquor made with apples
- arabica bean — a high-quality coffee bean, obtained from the tree Coffea arabica
- arachnophobe — a person who is afraid of spiders
- arborescence — treelike in size and form.
- archibenthos — the ocean bottom between the littoral and abyssal zones: from depths of approximately 200 feet (60 meters) to 3300 feet (1000 meters).
- area bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped over the general area of a target.
- assumed bond — a bond issued by one corporation and assumed as an obligation by another.
- astonishable — (obsolete) Astonishing.
- attenborough — Sir David. born 1926, British naturalist and broadcaster; noted esp for his TV series Life on Earth (1978), The Living Planet (1983), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002), and First Life (2010)
- avowableness — the quality or condition of being avowable
- babe-in-arms — a young baby that has to be carried
- babingtonite — a rare, slightly magnetic, black or dark green silicate mineral, Ca2Fe2Si5O14OH, found in cavities in volcanic rock
- baby-bouncer — a seat on springs suspended from a door frame, etc, in which a baby may be placed for exercise
- baccalaurean — of a baccalaureate
- back channel — an unofficial, often secret, means of communication
- 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
- backbenchers — Plural form of backbencher.
- backboneless — lacking backbone; cowardly
- backbreaking — demanding great effort; exhausting
- backgrounded — Simple past tense and past participle of background.
- backgrounder — A backgrounder is a short article in a newspaper or magazine that provides background information about a particular subject.
- backhandedly — In a backhanded manner.
- backpedaling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
- backwardness — toward the back or rear.
- backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
- bacon-slicer — a machine for cutting bacon into slices
- bad-mannered — having bad manners; impolite
- baden-powell — Robert Stephenson Smyth (smɪθ, smaɪθ), 1st Baron Baden-Powell. 1857–1941, British general, noted for his defence of Mafeking (1899–1900) in the Boer War; founder of the Boy Scouts (1908) and (with his sister Agnes) the Girl Guides (1910)
- badger plane — a plane for finishing rabbets or the like.
- badger skunk — hog-nosed skunk (def 1).
- badger-skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
- bag snatcher — a thief whose main tactic is to grab women's handbags and run off with them
- bainqen lama — Tashi Lama.
- bairnsfather — Bruce. 1888–1959, British cartoonist, born in India: best known for his cartoons of the war in the trenches during World War I
- baker island — an island in the central Pacific near the equator, belonging to the U.S. 1 sq. mi. (2.6 sq. km).
- baker's oven — an oven used esp for baking bread