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12-letter words containing a, b, s, c, m

  • dynamic dbms — dynamic database management system
  • elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
  • embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
  • encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
  • fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • hansom (cab) — a 19th-cent. two-wheeled covered carriage for two passengers, pulled by one horse: the driver's seat is above and behind the cab
  • 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.)
  • inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
  • incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
  • lactalbumins — Plural form of lactalbumin.
  • macaberesque — resembling or suggestive of the danse macabre; macabre
  • macrobiotics — a philosophically oriented program incorporating elements from several ancient cultures and emphasizing harmony with nature, especially through adherence to a diet consisting primarily of whole grains, beans, vegetables, and moderate amounts of seafood and fruit.
  • make sb sick — disgust sb morally
  • marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • mass balance — Mass balance is a consideration of the input, output, and distribution of a substance between streams in a process or stage.
  • mecca balsam — balm-of-Gilead (def 2).
  • metabolomics — the study of all the metabolites present in cells, tissues, and organs
  • metabonomics — (biochemistry, genetics) metabolomics.
  • miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
  • monosyllabic — having only one syllable, as the word no.
  • muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
  • noctambulism — somnambulism.
  • noctambulist — somnambulism.
  • noctambulous — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
  • obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
  • paschal lamb — Jewish History. a lamb slaughtered and eaten on the eve of the first day of Passover. Ex. 12:3–11.
  • pax vobiscum — peace be with you
  • plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rambus, inc. — (company)   The company which designed Rambus DRAM. Address: Mountain View, CA., USA.
  • sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
  • sea cucumber — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having a long, leathery body with tentacles around the anterior end.
  • semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
  • semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
  • star chamber — a former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat without a jury and that became noted for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments, abolished 1641.
  • submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
  • submolecular — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
  • symbolically — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
  • uncomposable — not fit for composition
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