12-letter words containing a, c, e, b, n
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- edible canna — a South American and West Indian herb, Canna edulis, having large sheathing leaves, red flowers, and edible rhizomes.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- embranchment — A branching forth, as of trees for example.
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
- enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
- encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- enterobacter — Any bacterium of the genus Enterobacter.
- exacerbating — Present participle of exacerbate.
- exacerbation — An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease).
- exchangeable — Able to be exchanged.
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
- finance bill — a bill or act of a legislature to obtain funds for the public treasury.
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
- forebearance — Misspelling of forbearance.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- head balance — headstand.
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- hull balance — (of a sailing ship) the property of maintaining satisfactory trim and steering qualities when heeled at a normal angle.
- in substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- inabstinence — a lack of abstinence or abstention
- inacceptable — Unacceptable.
- inaccessible — Unable to be reached.
- inaccessibly — In an inaccessible manner.
- inapplicable — not applicable; unsuitable.
- incalculable — very numerous or great.