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13-letter words containing a, b, s, i

  • apprehensible — capable of being comprehended or grasped mentally
  • apprehensibly — In an apprehensive manner; cautiously.
  • arabian horse — one of a breed of horses, raised originally in Arabia and adjacent countries, noted for intelligence, grace, and speed.
  • arabian senna — a tropical leguminous plant, Cassia angustifolia, having yellow flowers and long pods
  • arbitrariness — subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion: an arbitrary decision.
  • archbishopric — the rank, office, or jurisdiction of an archbishop
  • ascertainable — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • ascertainably — In a way that can be ascertained.
  • ascorbic acid — Ascorbic acid is another name for vitamin C.
  • assembly line — An assembly line is an arrangement of workers and machines in a factory, where each worker deals with only one part of a product. The product passes from one worker to another until it is finished.
  • assembly time — the time required for a computer to translate symbolic computer language into machine-language instructions.
  • assertability — The quality of being assertable.
  • asses' bridge — pons asinorum
  • assessability — The quality of being assessable.
  • assignability — The quality of being assignable.
  • associability — the condition of or the capacity to be associable or linked or related in thinking
  • asteroid belt — the concentrations of asteroids that move around the sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
  • atrabilarious — Characterized by melancholy or gloom.
  • aubervilliers — an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 63 136 (1999)
  • austin dobson — (Henry) Austin, 1840–1921, English poet, biographer, and essayist.
  • autostability — the property of being stable either as a result of inherent characteristics or of built-in devices
  • availableness — Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.
  • baby primrose — a tender primrose, Primula forbesii, native to China and Burma, having white, hairy leaves and rose- or lilac-colored flowers with a yellow center.
  • back emission — the secondary emission of electrons from an anode
  • back straight — a straight part of a circuit, esp of an athletics track or a racecourse, furthest from the finishing point
  • back-slapping — Back-slapping is noisy, cheerful behaviour which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • back-stabbing — Back-stabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
  • backbone site — A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or Internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University and the University of Texas. Compare rib site, leaf site.
  • backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
  • backstitching — Present participle of backstitch.
  • bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
  • bacteriolysis — the destruction or disintegration of bacteria
  • bacterioscopy — the examination of bacteria with a microscope.
  • bacteriostats — Plural form of bacteriostat.
  • baffin island — the largest island of the Canadian Arctic, between Greenland and Hudson Bay. Area: 476 560 sq km (184 000 sq miles)
  • bag of tricks — a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
  • bag-snatching — theft that involves snatching women's handbags
  • bail bondsman — an individual or firm that lends bail money to defendants awaiting trial
  • baily's beads — the brilliant points of sunlight that appear briefly around the moon, just before and after a total eclipse
  • balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • ballistically — of or relating to ballistics.
  • ballistospore — a spore, esp a fungal spore, that is forcefully ejected from its source
  • balmer series — a series of lines in the hydrogen spectrum, discovered by Johann Jakob Balmer (1825–98) in 1885
  • balsam capivi — copaiba.
  • balsam family — the plant family Balsaminaceae, typified by succulent stems, alternate, opposite, or whorled simple leaves, and irregular solitary or clustered flowers, including the balsam and jewelweed.
  • balsamiferous — yielding or producing balsam
  • baltic shield — the wide area of ancient rock in Scandinavia
  • baltic states — the republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which became constituent republics of the former Soviet Union in 1940, regaining their independence in 1991
  • banana spider — a large, yellowish, tropical crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria) occasionally found in bunches of bananas shipped to the Temperate Zones
  • banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
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