12-letter words containing b, e
- antechambers — Plural form of antechamber.
- 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.
- antiberiberi — Countering beriberi.
- antibusiness — opposed to business interests, particularly those of large-scale corporations
- antidiabetes — Countering diabetes.
- antidiabetic — a drug which acts against diabetes
- antifebriles — Plural form of antifebrile.
- antimetabole — the repetition of words in reverse order for emphasis
- antiparabema — either of two chapels at the west end of an Armenian or Byzantine church.
- antisociable — Antisocial.
- antwerp blue — any of several iron-blue pigments, usually containing a considerable amount of extender.
- apeirophobia — The fear of infinity and/or of infinite things.
- apostle bird — a gregarious grey-and-brown Australian nest-building bird, Struthidea cinerea
- apple blight — an aphid, Eriosoma lanigera, that is covered with a powdery waxy secretion and infests apple trees
- apple brandy — an alcoholic liquor made with apples
- apple butter — a jam made from stewed spiced apples
- approachable — If you describe someone as approachable, you think that they are friendly and easy to talk to.
- appropriable — that can be appropriated
- arabia felix — an ancient division of Arabia, in the S part: sometimes restricted to Yemen.
- arabica bean — a high-quality coffee bean, obtained from the tree Coffea arabica
- arachnophobe — a person who is afraid of spiders
- aramid fiber — a fiber having resistance to high temperatures and great strength, formed from an aramid and used in materials for bulletproof vests and radial tires.
- arbitrageurs — Plural form of arbitrageur.
- arborescence — treelike in size and form.
- arborio rice — variety of round-grain rice used for making risotto
- archibenthos — the ocean bottom between the littoral and abyssal zones: from depths of approximately 200 feet (60 meters) to 3300 feet (1000 meters).
- area bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped over the general area of a target.
- argle-bargle — argy-bargy
- armourbearer — One who carries armor for another.
- arquebusiers — harquebusier.
- art mobilier — small, movable art objects, especially primitive or prehistoric works of art.
- arthrobacter — a genus of rod-shaped or spherical bacteria found in the soil.
- artzybasheff — Boris Mikhailovich [bawr-is mi-kahy-luh-vich,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1965, U.S. illustrator and writer, born in Russia.
- asbestos mat — a heat-proof mat
- assemblagist — a creative person or artist who is skilled in putting together works of art based on assemblage
- assumed bond — a bond issued by one corporation and assumed as an obligation by another.
- astonishable — (obsolete) Astonishing.
- at a low ebb — in a state or period of weakness, lack of vigour, or decline
- atholl brose — a mixture of whisky and honey left to ferment before consumption
- attenborough — Sir David. born 1926, British naturalist and broadcaster; noted esp for his TV series Life on Earth (1978), The Living Planet (1983), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002), and First Life (2010)
- attributable — If something is attributable to an event, situation, or person, it is likely that it was caused by that event, situation or person.
- authorizable — able to be authorized
- autoexec.bat — (operating system) The batch file containing commands, loaded by MS-DOS after running CONFIG.SYS. AUTOEXEC.BAT contains normal DOS commands and can be used for additional system configuration such as setting paths and variables, configuring network connections and running application programs.
- avowableness — the quality or condition of being avowable
- axel heiberg — the largest island belonging to the Sverdrup group in the Canadian Northwest Territories. 15,779 sq. mi. (40,868 sq. km).
- b chromosome — a type of densely staining chromosome of uncertain biological function, found in many plant and animal species.
- b lymphocyte — B cell.
- b-lymphocyte — a type of lymphocyte, originating in bone marrow, that produces antibodies
- b-s particle — a neutral meson with a mass 10,507 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.6 X 10 -12 seconds.