12-letter words containing a, r, b, e, s
- forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gallbladders — Plural form of gallbladder.
- gastarbeiter — guest worker.
- gebrselassie — Haile (ˈhaɪlɪ). born 1973, Ethiopian athlete; won gold medals in the 10,000 metres at the Olympics (1996, 2000) and in four consecutive World Championships (1993–99)
- georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.
- gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- 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.
- haberdashers — Plural form of haberdasher.
- haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- horsebreaker — One who trains, or breaks in, horses.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- 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.)
- illiberalise — to render illiberal
- 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
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- inobservable — Unobservable.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- interrobangs — Plural form of interrobang.
- inurbaneness — The quality of being inurbane; inurbanity.
- irresistable — Misspelling of irresistible.