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12-letter words containing a, e, s, t

  • basic weight — basis weight.
  • basis weight — the weight in pounds of a ream of paper of a basic size, usually 25 × 38 inches (63 × 96 cm) for book stock, 17 × 22 inches (43 × 55 cm) for writing stock, and 20 × 26 inches (50 × 66 cm) for cover stock.
  • basket catch — a catch made with open glove with the palm up and the wrist kept close to and in front of the body.
  • basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
  • basket maker — a member of an early Native American people of the southwestern US, preceding the Pueblo people, known for skill in basket-making
  • basket weave — a weave of fabrics resembling the weave used in basket making
  • basketballer — (informal) A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.
  • basketmaking — The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.
  • basketweaver — a person who advocates simple, natural, and unsophisticated living
  • basmati rice — a variety of long-grain rice with slender aromatic grains, used for savoury dishes
  • basque shirt — a knitted pullover shirt having a crew neck, long or short sleeves, and a pattern of horizontal stripes.
  • basse-taille — of or relating to an enameling technique in which transparent enamels are fused over a background carved in low relief, or to a piece, as of jewelry, so enameled.
  • basset hound — A basset hound is a dog with short strong legs, a long body, and long ears. It is kept as a pet or used for hunting.
  • basset table — a card table of the early 18th century in England.
  • bastard file — a file of the commercial grade of coarseness between coarse and second-cut.
  • bastel house — (on the Anglo-Scottish border) a partly fortified house, usually with a vaulted ground floor.
  • bastille day — (in France) an annual holiday on July 14, commemorating the fall of the Bastille
  • bathyscaphes — Plural form of bathyscaphe.
  • bathyspheres — Plural form of bathysphere.
  • batter's box — box1 (def 16a).
  • battle clasp — clasp (def 4).
  • battle dress — military field uniform and accouterments, generally camouflaged and stripped of all ornamentation.
  • battlefields — Plural form of battlefield.
  • battlefronts — Plural form of battlefront.
  • battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
  • be at a loss — If you say that you are at a loss, you mean that you do not know what to do in a particular situation.
  • beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
  • bean sprouts — the sprouts of newly germinated mung beans, eaten as a vegetable, esp in Chinese dishes
  • bean-shooter — peashooter.
  • bear witness — to give written or oral testimony
  • beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
  • beaufort sea — part of the Arctic Ocean off the N coast of North America
  • beautifulest — (dated) Most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.
  • beauty salon — A beauty salon is the same as a beauty parlour.
  • beauty sleep — sleep, esp sleep before midnight
  • beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
  • beaver state — Oregon (used as a nickname).
  • beggar-ticks — any of various plants, such as the bur marigold and tick trefoil, having fruits or seeds that cling to clothing, fur, etc
  • below stairs — People sometimes use below stairs to refer to the servants in a rich household and the things that are connected with them.
  • belteshazzar — the Babylonian name given to Daniel. Dan. 1:7.
  • benefactress — a female benefactor
  • bespectacled — Someone who is bespectacled is wearing glasses.
  • beta orionis — Rigel
  • beta testing — (programming)   Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
  • beta version — beta testing
  • beth midrash — a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue.
  • beth shammai — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish teacher Shammai and characterized by an austere or rigid interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.
  • bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
  • bien pensant — a right-thinking person
  • bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
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