12-letter words containing b, i, a, s, e
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- hessian boot — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- hispanophobe — a person who dislikes Hispanic culture or the Spanish language.
- hosepipe ban — a ban, due to water shortage, on using hosepipes to water the garden or wash cars
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- 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.)
- illiberalise — to render illiberal
- illiberalism — narrowminded; bigoted.
- illusionable — Liable to illusion.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- in sb's wake — If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go.
- 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.
- inadmissible — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
- inappeasable — unable to be soothed or appeased: inappeasable anger.
- inconsolable — 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.
- indefeasible — not defeasible; not to be annulled or made void; not forfeitable.
- indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.
- indefinables — Plural form of indefinable.
- indisposable — Not disposable.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- inexcuseable — Alternative form of inexcusable.
- inexpansible — unable to be expanded
- inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
- innominables — trousers
- inobservable — Unobservable.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insupposable — Incapable of being supposed; inconceivable.
- interrobangs — Plural form of interrobang.
- inurbaneness — The quality of being inurbane; inurbanity.
- investigable — capable of being investigated.
- irresistable — Misspelling of irresistible.
- irresistably — Misspelling of irresistibly.