12-letter words containing a, b, u, s
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- distributary — an outflowing branch of a stream or river, typically found in a delta (opposed to tributary).
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double steal — a play in which two base runners steal a base each.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- emulsifiable — That can be emulsified, or applied in an emulsion.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gas bacillus — any of several pathogenic bacilli, especially of the genus Clostridium, that produce gas in infected tissue.
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- illusionable — Liable to illusion.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- in substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- incunabulist — a person who specialises in incunabula, a collector of incunabula
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indisputably — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- inexcuseable — Alternative form of inexcusable.
- insalubrious — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.