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.