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12-letter words containing a, n, b, e, r

  • remembrancer — a person who reminds another of something.
  • renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
  • renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • renounceable — of a nature that can be renounced
  • reserve bank — one of the 12 principal banks of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.
  • restrainable — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • retranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • ribbon cable — (hardware)   A type of flat multicore cable with cores positioned side-by-side, making it quick and relatively easy to clamp an Insulation Displacement Connector (IDC) across all cores. Ribbon cables typically have grey insulation with cores on a 0.050" pitch and a red stripe marking Pin 1. They are less resilient than screened, multicore cable and are usually used inside equipment where little movement or plugging and unplugging are expected. A common use is connecting a disk drive to the motherboard in a PC.
  • ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
  • ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
  • rickenbacker — Edward Vernon ("Eddie") 1890–1973, U.S. aviator and aviation executive.
  • robber baron — History/Historical. a noble who robbed travelers passing through his lands.
  • rubber plant — a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.
  • russian blue — any of a breed of domestic cat, thought to have originated in Arkhangelsk, with a soft, dense, grayish-blue or silvery-blue coat and green eyes
  • sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
  • saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
  • saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
  • saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
  • salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
  • san bernardo — a city in central Chile, S of Santiago.
  • sand verbena — any of several low, mostly trailing plants of the genus Abronia, of the western U.S., having showy, verbenalike flowers.
  • sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
  • scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
  • standardbred — one of an American breed of trotting and pacing horses used chiefly for harness racing.
  • stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
  • stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
  • sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
  • subalternant — a universal in relation to a subaltern
  • subalternate — subordinate.
  • subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
  • subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
  • suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
  • subminiature — subminiature camera.
  • subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subterranean — existing, situated, or operating below the surface of the earth; underground.
  • sun umbrella — an umbrella by a chair or table, used for protecting you from the sun
  • supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
  • surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
  • table runner — fabric strip used to decorate a table
  • tate britain — one of the two art galleries in London that make up the Tate Galleries; originally the Tate Gallery (1897)
  • tavern table — a short table having a narrow, deep apron and legs connected by a box stretcher.
  • the barbican — a building complex in the City of London: includes residential developments and the Barbican Arts Centre (completed 1982) housing concert and exhibition halls, theatres, cinemas, etc
  • the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
  • timbale iron — a metal mold made in any of several shapes and usually provided with a long handle, for deep-frying timbales.
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