12-letter words containing a, b, y, s
- 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.
- 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
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- six-yard box — On a football pitch, the six-yard box is the rectangular area marked in front of the goal.
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- sportability — suitability to be used in or as a sport
- stackability — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
- stageability — a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- steerability — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
- stickability — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stringy-bark — any of several eucalyptus trees having a fibrous bark
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- subjudiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- subliminally — existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual: a subliminal stimulus; subliminal advertising.
- submaxillary — of or relating to the lower jaw or lower jawbone.
- subquarterly — as one of the quarterings of a grand quarter: a coat of arms borne subquarterly.
- subsecretary — a secretary subordinate to another secretary
- subsidiarily — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
- subsidiarity — secondary importance
- subsonically — at a velocity below that of sound
- subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.
- subway train — a train that runs on an underground railway
- sybase, inc. — (company) A software vendor focused on database management software. Yearly sales: $903.9 million (1997). Address: 6475 Christie Ave., Emeryville, California, USA.
- syllabically — of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
- symbolically — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
- symbololatry — the worship of symbols
- trachybasalt — a fine-grained volcanic rock containing sanidine and calcic plagioclase.
- trustability — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- unanalysable — not able to be analysed or examined
- unappeasably — in an unappeasable manner
- unassailably — not open to attack or assault, as by military force or argument: unassailable fortifications; unassailable logic.
- unmeasurably — of undetermined or indefinitely great extent or amount; unlimited; measureless: the unmeasured heavens.
- unmistakably — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
- unpunishably — in an unpunishable manner
- unreasonably — not reasonable or rational; acting at variance with or contrary to reason; not guided by reason or sound judgment; irrational: an unreasonable person.
- unsearchably — in an unsearchable manner
- unseasonably — not seasonable; being out of season; unseasonal: unseasonable weather.
- unstatutably — in an unstatutable manner
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- xylobalsamum — the dried, fragrant wood of the Balsamodendron gileadense that produces resin known as Balm of Gilead
- younghusband — Sir Francis Edward. 1863–1942, British explorer, mainly of N India and Tibet. He used military force to compel the Dalai Lama to sign (1904) a trade agreement with Britain