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12-letter words containing a, b, s, r

  • recalibrates — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
  • red brigades — an extreme leftist terrorist organization in Italy.
  • registerable — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
  • reimbursable — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
  • replevisable — capable of being replevied.
  • researchable — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
  • 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).
  • rhabdosphere — a minute sphere made up of rhabdoliths
  • 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.
  • ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
  • rubber stamp — handheld printing tool
  • rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
  • 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
  • sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
  • safe harbour — a place that offers protection from the weather, attack, etc
  • safe-breaker — a person who breaks open and robs safes
  • sailboarding — windsurfing.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
  • san bernardo — a city in central Chile, S of Santiago.
  • sand verbena — any of several low, mostly trailing plants of the genus Abronia, of the western U.S., having showy, verbenalike flowers.
  • 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.
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • saprobiology — the branch of ecology that studies decaying organic matter or environments, especially saprophytes that derive nourishment in this way.
  • saturability — capable of being saturated.
  • saudi arabia — a kingdom in N and central Arabia, including Hejaz, Nejd, and dependencies. About 600,000 sq. mi. (1,554,000 sq. km). Capital: Riyadh.
  • sb's travels — the journeys someone makes to places a long way from their home
  • scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scabbardless — lacking a scabbard or a sheath for a sword or dagger
  • scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • school board — a local board or committee in charge of public education.
  • scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
  • scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
  • scraperboard — scratchboard.
  • scratchboard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
  • scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
  • scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
  • scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
  • scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
  • scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
  • scrutability — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
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