12-letter words containing b, r, e, c, i
- garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
- 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.
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hyperbolical — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- 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.)
- impierceable — not able to be pierced
- incharitable — Obsolete form of uncharitable.
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incorporable — able to be incorporated.
- incorrigible — not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
- incorrodible — incapable of being corroded; not corrodible
- increditable — (rare) Incapable of being believed; not creditable.
- incrossbreed — to breed (animals) by crossbreeding inbred parents, whether of the same or of different breeds
- incumbrancer — (legal) One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- ineradicable — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
- ineradicably — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
- inextricable — from which one cannot extricate oneself: an inextricable maze.
- inextricably — from which one cannot extricate oneself: an inextricable maze.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- instructible — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- inter-branch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- interactable — (of an object) able to be interacted with.
- irreplacable — Misspelling of irreplaceable.
- irreplicable — Incapable of being replicated.
- job creation — the process by which the number of jobs in an area, organization, etc is increased
- job security — chances of staying in employment
- john bircher — Bircher.
- le corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
- liberalistic — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
- metabotropic — Describing a neurotransmitter or cell receptor whose action is mediated by metabolic functions (e.g. enzyme activation).
- metacinnabar — a polymorph of cinnabar, black mercuric sulfide, HgS.
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
- microblogger — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
- microbrewery — a brewery producing less than 15,000 barrels per year and usually concentrating on exotic or high quality beer.
- microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
- microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.