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

  • misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
  • miserabilist — One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
  • mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
  • montebrasite — a mineral, lithium aluminum hydroxyl phosphate, LiAlPO 4 (OH), isomorphous with amblygonite, used as an ore of lithium.
  • musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
  • musturbation — (psychology) The compulsive insistence that things ought to be a particular way.
  • namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
  • neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
  • nimbostratus — a cloud of a class characterized by a formless layer that is almost uniformly dark gray; a rain cloud of the layer type, of low altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2440 meters).
  • noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
  • obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
  • observations — Plural form of observation.
  • obstetrician — a physician who specializes in obstetrics. Abbreviation: OB, ob.
  • petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
  • postabortion — Also called voluntary abortion. the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.
  • postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
  • preestablish — to establish beforehand.
  • presbyterial — of or relating to a presbytery.
  • presbyterian — pertaining to or based on the principle of ecclesiastical government by presbyters or presbyteries.
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
  • rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • re-establish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • re-stabilize — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
  • reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
  • recalibrates — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • registerable — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
  • 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).
  • ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • 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
  • saturability — capable of being saturated.
  • scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • 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
  • scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
  • scrutability — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
  • secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
  • semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
  • separability — capable of being separated, parted, or dissociated.
  • severability — capability of being separated, as of a clause in an agreement
  • shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
  • slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
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