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12-letter words containing b, e, n, i, s

  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • spellbinding — to hold or bind by or as if by a spell; enchant; entrance; fascinate.
  • spelling bee — a spelling competition won by the individual or team spelling the greatest number of words correctly; spelldown.
  • spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
  • spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
  • steubenville — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
  • stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
  • stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
  • sub-religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
  • subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
  • subcontinent — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
  • subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
  • suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
  • subinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
  • subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
  • subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
  • subintroduce — to introduce subtly
  • subjectional — the act of subjecting.
  • sublineation — an underlining
  • subminiature — subminiature camera.
  • subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subservience — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • subserviency — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • substantiate — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
  • supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
  • swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
  • sybase, inc. — (company)   A software vendor focused on database management software. Yearly sales: $903.9 million (1997). Address: 6475 Christie Ave., Emeryville, California, USA.
  • table tennis — a game resembling tennis, played on a table with small paddles and a hollow celluloid or plastic ball.
  • tennis elbow — irritation of the synovial membrane, or joint rotary area, of the elbow, caused by immoderate motions while playing tennis or other sports; epicondylitis.
  • terribleness — distressing; severe: a terrible winter.
  • the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
  • the business — If you say that someone or something is the business, you mean that they are the best of their kind.
  • the dingbats — delirium tremens
  • transpirable — to occur; happen; take place.
  • transponible — capable of being transposed.
  • tube station — an underground station where underground trains depart and leave, esp in London
  • un-furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
  • unaccessible — easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
  • unassailable — not open to attack or assault, as by military force or argument: unassailable fortifications; unassailable logic.
  • unassignable — not able to be transferred
  • unbesmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
  • uncapsizable — (of a boat, etc) that cannot be capsized
  • undefensible — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
  • undigestible — indigestible.
  • undisputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
  • undissembled — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
  • unhospitable — not hospitable
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