12-letter words containing a, b, t, e, s
- scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
- sell-by date — the last date on which perishable food should be sold, usually established with some allowance for home storage under refrigeration. Compare shelf life.
- 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.
- semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
- semibasement — a basement partly above ground, as in a house built on a slope.
- separability — capable of being separated, parted, or dissociated.
- severability — capability of being separated, as of a clause in an agreement
- sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
- shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
- 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.
- skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
- slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
- snake-bitten — bitten by a snake.
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- specbaserate — A variant of SPECrate that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules. See SPECrate_base_fp92, SPECrate_base_int92.
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
- square-built — sturdy and strong-looking
- stabat mater — (italics) a Latin hymn, composed in the 13th century, commemorating the sorrows of the Virgin Mary at the Cross.
- stabilimeter — stabilograph.
- stageability — a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- standardbred — one of an American breed of trotting and pacing horses used chiefly for harness racing.
- star chamber — a former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat without a jury and that became noted for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments, abolished 1641.
- statute book — a book containing the laws enacted by the legislature of a state or nation.
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steerability — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
- stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
- storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
- striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
- sub-additive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- subaggregate — a subtotal
- subalternant — a universal in relation to a subaltern
- subalternate — subordinate.
- subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subcelestial — being beneath the heavens; terrestrial.
- subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
- subcutaneous — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.