12-letter words containing a, t, b
- agglutinable — Able to be agglutinated; that readily undergoes agglutination.
- agreeability — an agreeable disposition
- air-breather — an aircraft, missile, or submarine engine that requires air from the atmosphere for the combustion of its fuel.
- airbrush out — to remove evidence of (someone or something from photographs, books, or history)
- albert canal — ship canal in Belgium, from Liège to Antwerp: 81 mi (131 km)
- albert speer — Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- alberti bass — a reiterated broken-chord figure used as an accompaniment, especially in 18th-century rococo keyboard music.
- alienability — (uncountable) The quality of being alienable.
- all the best — You can say 'All the best' when you are saying goodbye to someone, or at the end of a letter.
- alloantibody — an antibody that reacts with an antigen from a genetically different individual of the same species.
- allowability — The state of being allowable; legitimacy; permissibleness.
- alpha boötis — Arcturus
- alphabetical — Alphabetical means arranged according to the normal order of the letters in the alphabet.
- alphabetised — (British) Arranged in alphabetical order.
- alphabetiser — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of alphabetizer.
- alphabetized — (North America) Arranged in alphabetical order.
- alphabetizer — to put or arrange in alphabetical order.
- alphabetizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alphabetize.
- alterability — capable of being altered.
- ambartsumian — Viktor A(mazaspovich). 1908–96, Armenian astrophysicist, renowned for his description of radio sources as explosions in the core of galaxies
- amber nectar — beer
- ambidextrous — Someone who is ambidextrous can use both their right hand and their left hand equally skilfully.
- ambiposition — (linguistics) An adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.
- ambisextrous — Informal. sexually attracted to both sexes; bisexual. used by or suitable for either sex; unisex: ambisextrous hair styles.
- ambisinister — clumsy or unskillful with both hands.
- ambitendency — ambivalence, especially when acted out; a tendency to contradictory behavior arising from conflicting impulses.
- ambitionless — without ambition, unambitious
- ambivalently — in an ambivalent manner
- ambrettolide — a colorless liquid, C 16 H 28 O 2 , having a strong musky odor, used as a fixative in the manufacture of perfume.
- ambulatories — Plural form of ambulatory.
- ambulatorily — By or in terms of walking.
- amfebutamone — (former name) The drug bupropion.
- aminobutyric — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to any of several isomeric univalent radicals in which a hydrogen atom of a butyric radical is replaced by an amino group.
- amissibility — the quality of being amissible
- amphiblastic — (of animal ova) showing complete but unequal cleavage after fertilization
- amphibolitic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of an amphibolite.
- anabaptistic — relating to Anabaptists
- anaerobiotic — anaerobic
- analphabetic — not in alphabetical order
- annie besant — Annie (Wood) 1847–1933, English theosophist.
- annuity bond — a fixed-rate bond that pays out the same amount of cash every year over its lifetime
- antebrachial — Lb anatomy relating to the forearm.
- antebrachium — (anatomy) The forearm.
- antechambers — Plural form of antechamber.
- anti-british — opposed to anything characteristic of or relating to Britain
- anti-lebanon — a mountain range running north and south between Syria and Lebanon, east of the Lebanon Mountains. Highest peak: Mount Hermon, 2814 m (9232 ft)
- anti-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- antiabortion — opposed to induced or surgical abortions
- antiantibody — antibody that combines with another antibody.
- antibacchius — a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, of which the first two are long and the third is short