12-letter words containing a, b, y, s
- by reason of — If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it.
- by the balls — so as to be rendered powerless
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- bypass ratio — the ratio of the amount of air that bypasses the combustion chambers of an aircraft gas turbine to that passing through them
- carbohydrase — a digestive enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates through hydrolysis
- case-by-case — considering each case individually rather than considering several cases together as a whole
- columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
- conscionably — being in conformity with one's conscience; just.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
- crossability — the quality of being crossable
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- crystal ball — If you say that someone, especially an expert, looks into a crystal ball, you mean that they are trying to predict the future. Crystal balls are traditionally used by fortune-tellers.
- cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- cyberspastic — (humour) A person suffering from information overload while browsing the Internet or web. Compare webhead.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- decasyllabic — having ten syllables: a decasyllabic verse.
- decasyllable — a word or line of verse consisting of ten syllables
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- desirability — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- dissyllabify — to make disyllabic
- dissyllabism — the fact of having two syllables
- dissyllabize — to disyllabize.
- distributary — an outflowing branch of a stream or river, typically found in a delta (opposed to tributary).
- dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
- dynamic dbms — dynamic database management system
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- every bit as — equally, just as
- geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.
- great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- hexasyllable — a word or line of verse of six syllables.
- hybrid basis — A hybrid basis is a system of accounting that combines some of the features of cost basis with some of the features of accrual basis.
- hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hypabyssally — in a hypabyssal manner
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- inaccessibly — In an inaccessible manner.
- inadmissibly — In an inadmissible way.