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12-letter words containing b, a, s, c

  • displaceable — Capable of being displaced.
  • dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
  • distractable — Alternative form of distractible.
  • distractible — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
  • domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
  • dressed crab — cooked crabmeat that has been taken out of the shell
  • dynamic dbms — dynamic database management system
  • elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
  • elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
  • embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
  • encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
  • fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
  • facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
  • factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
  • fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
  • fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
  • fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
  • 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.
  • gas bacillus — any of several pathogenic bacilli, especially of the genus Clostridium, that produce gas in infected tissue.
  • gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
  • go ballistic — of or relating to ballistics.
  • 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.
  • hack to bits — to damage severely
  • hansom (cab) — a 19th-cent. two-wheeled covered carriage for two passengers, pulled by one horse: the driver's seat is above and behind the cab
  • hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
  • hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
  • 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.)
  • in substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
  • inabstinence — a lack of abstinence or abstention
  • inaccessible — Unable to be reached.
  • inaccessibly — In an inaccessible manner.
  • inconsolable — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
  • inconsolably — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
  • inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
  • incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
  • incunabulist — a person who specialises in incunabula, a collector of incunabula
  • inexcuseable — Alternative form of inexcusable.
  • inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
  • inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
  • irascibility — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
  • jackass bark — a barkentine square-rigged on the mainmast above a gaff mainsail.
  • jackass brig — a two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast with a fore-and-aft mainsail; brigantine.
  • just because — for the sole reason that
  • knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
  • labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
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