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12-letter words containing a, b, s, e, n

  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • provableness — the quality of being provable
  • questionable — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
  • questionably — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
  • quotableness — the condition or quality of being quotable
  • rag business — the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.
  • raisin bread — dough baked with dried grapes
  • rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
  • reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
  • red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
  • reserve bank — one of the 12 principal banks of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.
  • restrainable — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • retranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
  • ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
  • russian blue — any of a breed of domestic cat, thought to have originated in Arkhangelsk, with a soft, dense, grayish-blue or silvery-blue coat and green eyes
  • sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
  • saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
  • saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
  • saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
  • sainte-beuve — Charles Augustin [sharl oh-gy-stan] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1804–69, French literary critic.
  • salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
  • san bernardo — a city in central Chile, S of Santiago.
  • sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • sanctus bell — a bell rung during the celebration of Mass to call attention to the more solemn parts.
  • sand verbena — any of several low, mostly trailing plants of the genus Abronia, of the western U.S., having showy, verbenalike flowers.
  • sand-blasted — a blast of air or steam laden with sand, used to clean, grind, cut, or decorate hard surfaces, as of glass, stone, or metal.
  • sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
  • santa isabel — former name of Malabo.
  • scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • sea bindweed — a species of bindweed, Calystegia soldanella, which grows on beaches in E North America, Europe, and Asia
  • seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
  • secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
  • sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
  • self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
  • 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.
  • semibasement — a basement partly above ground, as in a house built on a slope.
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • singableness — the quality of being singable
  • sino-tibetan — a family of languages including especially Burmese, Tibetan, and the various local languages and dialects whose speakers share literary Chinese as their standard language.
  • sleeping bag — a warmly lined or padded body-length bag, usually waterproof and with a closure, in which one or two persons can sleep, especially outdoors, as when camping.
  • snake-bitten — bitten by a snake.
  • snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
  • somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
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