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12-letter words containing a, m, b, s

  • encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
  • exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
  • false bottom — a horizontal partition above the actual bottom of a box, trunk, etc., especially one forming a secret compartment.
  • fibromatosis — (pathology) The presence of multiple fibromas.
  • fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
  • funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
  • glioblastoma — A highly invasive glioma in the brain.
  • 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.
  • gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
  • haematoblast — any of the undifferentiated cells in the bone marrow that develop into blood cells
  • hansom (cab) — a 19th-cent. two-wheeled covered carriage for two passengers, pulled by one horse: the driver's seat is above and behind the cab
  • harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
  • hematoblasts — Plural form of hematoblast.
  • homo habilis — an extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics, dated as being from about 1.5 million to more than 2 million years old and proposed as an early form of Homo leading to modern humans.
  • icbm address — (networking, humour)   (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
  • illiberalism — narrowminded; bigoted.
  • 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.
  • imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
  • imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
  • imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
  • in mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
  • inadmissible — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
  • inadmissibly — In an inadmissible way.
  • inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
  • incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
  • innominables — trousers
  • islamophobia — Alternative capitalization of Islamophobia.
  • lactalbumins — Plural form of lactalbumin.
  • lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
  • lamb's tails — burro's tail.
  • liquidambars — Plural form of liquidambar.
  • lumbersexual — a man whose style of dress and appearance is reminiscent of the ruggedly masculine stereotype of the lumberjack, as in wearing plaid shirts and having a beard.
  • lymphoblasts — Plural form of lymphoblast.
  • macaberesque — resembling or suggestive of the danse macabre; macabre
  • macrobiotics — a philosophically oriented program incorporating elements from several ancient cultures and emphasizing harmony with nature, especially through adherence to a diet consisting primarily of whole grains, beans, vegetables, and moderate amounts of seafood and fruit.
  • make sb sick — disgust sb morally
  • make-up base — a primer of make-up applied to the face in order to prepare it for the main layer of make-up
  • mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
  • marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
  • marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
  • mashrebeeyah — meshrebeeyeh.
  • mashrebeeyeh — (in Islamic countries) an oriel screened by latticework.
  • mass balance — Mass balance is a consideration of the input, output, and distribution of a substance between streams in a process or stage.
  • massaranduba — any of various evergreen trees of the genus Manilkara of the family Sapotaceae that are native to the tropics
  • master baker — a baker who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
  • mastoid bone — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
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