12-letter words containing a, s, e, t, b, c
- metabonomics — (biochemistry, genetics) metabolomics.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- object glass — objective (def 3).
- obstetrician — a physician who specializes in obstetrics. Abbreviation: OB, ob.
- octosyllable — a word or line of verse of eight syllables.
- of substance — wealthy
- osteoblastic — a bone-forming cell.
- overabstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- recalibrates — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- retranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanctus bell — a bell rung during the celebration of Mass to call attention to the more solemn parts.
- scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- 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
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- specbaserate — A variant of SPECrate that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules. See SPECrate_base_fp92, SPECrate_base_int92.
- spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
- 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.
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- subcelestial — being beneath the heavens; terrestrial.
- subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
- subcutaneous — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- subsecretary — a secretary subordinate to another secretary
- subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.
- supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
- to sb's face — If you say something to someone's face, you say it openly in their presence.
- unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- unstanchable — unstoppable