12-letter words containing b, a, t, e, r
- drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- driveability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- ebracteolate — having no bractlets
- elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- embarassment — Misspelling of embarrassment.
- embranchment — A branching forth, as of trees for example.
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- enterobacter — Any bacterium of the genus Enterobacter.
- enterobiasis — a disease, common in children, caused by infestation of the large intestine with nematodes of the genus Enterobius, esp the pinworm (E. vermicularis)
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
- equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
- erev shabbat — the day before the Sabbath, i.e. Friday
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- every bit as — equally, just as
- exacerbating — Present participle of exacerbate.
- exacerbation — An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease).
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- exprobration — the act of reproaching
- exprobrative — signifying reproach, reproachful
- exprobratory — acting as a reproach
- exterminable — Capable of being exterminated.
- extraditable — (of a crime) rendering the offender liable to extradition
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- fertilizable — Capable of being fertilized.
- fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- firebreather — A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.
- flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- flat battery — power cell that has run down
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- foot-lambert — a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, equal to the luminance of a surface emitting a luminous flux of one lumen per square foot, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle. Abbreviation: fL.
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.