12-letter words containing b, r, i, s
- summarizable — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
- suppressible — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- supraorbital — situated above the eye socket.
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- survival bag — a large plastic bag carried by climbers for use in an emergency as protection against exposure
- swamp rabbit — any of several southern cottontails, especially Sylvilagus aquaticus, of swamps and lowlands.
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
- 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 hebrides — a group of over 500 islands off the W coast of Scotland: separated by the North Minch, Little Minch, and the Sea of the Hebrides: the chief islands are Skye, Raasay, Rum, Eigg, Coll, Tiree, Mull, Jura, Colonsay, and Islay (Inner Hebrides), and Lewis with Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, and Barra (Outer Hebrides)
- thrombolysis — the dissolving or breaking up of a thrombus.
- timbrologist — a stamp-collector
- transpirable — to occur; happen; take place.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- tribespeople — members of a tribe; people living a tribal lifestyle
- trombidiasis — infestation with mites of the family Trombiculidae
- trophobiosis — the exchange of nourishment between organisms in a symbiotic relationship
- truss bridge — a bridge in which the loads are supported by trusses.
- trustability — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- tuberculosis — an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and characterized by tubercles.
- tuberiferous — bearing or producing tubers
- tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
- turbinacious — with a peaty aroma or flavour
- turkish bath — a bath in which the bather, after copious perspiration in a steam room, showers and has a rubdown.
- ubangi-shari — former name of the Central African Republic.
- 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.
- unbesmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
- undisturbing — not disturbing
- union buster — any of a group of persons hired by a company to disperse picketers, end a strike or job action, etc., especially by violence or intimidation.
- unperishable — imperishable
- unprescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- unreimbursed — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- unresistible — not able to be resisted or opposed
- unreversible — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
- unsalubrious — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- unshrinkable — not able to contract or become smaller in size
- unslumbering — not sleeping
- unsubscribed — not subscribed
- unsurvivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- upright bass — double bass
- urbanisation — the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city: Urbanization has led to more air pollution and increasing childhood asthma.
- urbanologist — a sociologist specializing in urban life and problems
- variableness — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- vers-librist — a person who writes free verse.
- web designer — a person who plans, designs, creates, and often maintains websites.
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
- web services — (standard, programming, software) A family of standards promoted by the W3C for working with other business, developers and programs through open protocols, languages and APIs, including XML, Simple Object Access Protocol, WSDL and UDDI.
- weighbridges — Plural form of weighbridge.