12-letter words containing a, m, e, s, b
- monosyllable — a word of one syllable, as yes or no.
- montebrasite — a mineral, lithium aluminum hydroxyl phosphate, LiAlPO 4 (OH), isomorphous with amblygonite, used as an ore of lithium.
- moses basket — wicker bed for a baby
- motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
- moveableness — The quality of being moveable.
- muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- mutable sign — any of the four astrological signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, that are grouped together because of their placement at the end of the seasons and characterized by the attribute of adaptability to circumstances.
- namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- omnishambles — Chiefly British Informal. a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences.
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
- pre-assembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- reassemblage — a new or further gathering or collection
- reimbursable — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- rubber stamp — handheld printing tool
- rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
- sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sea cucumber — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having a long, leathery body with tentacles around the anterior end.
- seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
- semiarboreal — (of animals) spending half or some of their life in trees
- semibasement — a basement partly above ground, as in a house built on a slope.
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- silver bream — a type of ray-finned fish from the family Cyprinidae
- simplifiable — having the ability to be made less complicated, clearer, or easier
- slumber wear — nightclothes
- slumbershade — sleep shade.
- small barbel — any small cyprinid fish of the genus Barbus
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- stabat mater — (italics) a Latin hymn, composed in the 13th century, commemorating the sorrows of the Virgin Mary at the Cross.
- stabilimeter — stabilograph.
- star chamber — a former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat without a jury and that became noted for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments, abolished 1641.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
- subminiature — subminiature camera.
- submit-table — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- submolecular — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- subtemperate — of, relating to, or occurring in the colder parts of the Temperate Zone.
- subumbrellar — of or pertaining to the subumbrella, located beneath the umbrella (of a jellyfish)