12-letter words containing b, s, c, e
- make sb sick — disgust sb morally
- marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- mass balance — Mass balance is a consideration of the input, output, and distribution of a substance between streams in a process or stage.
- mecca balsam — balm-of-Gilead (def 2).
- metabolomics — the study of all the metabolites present in cells, tissues, and organs
- metabonomics — (biochemistry, genetics) metabolomics.
- microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- misprescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
- muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
- muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- obcompressed — compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.
- object glass — objective (def 3).
- oblivescence — the process of forgetting.
- obliviscence — the condition or fact of failing to remember or having failed to remember or of being absent-minded
- obmutescence — persistent silence
- obsolescence — the state, process, or condition of being or becoming obsolete.
- obstetrician — a physician who specializes in obstetrics. Abbreviation: OB, ob.
- oconee-bells — a plant, Shortia galacifolia, of the southeastern U.S., having glossy, rounded leaves and white or pink bell-shaped flowers with fringed petals.
- octosyllable — a word or line of verse of eight syllables.
- of substance — wealthy
- oracle bones — animal bones used for divination
- osteoblastic — a bone-forming cell.
- overabstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
- prepubescent — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
- prescribable — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- presubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- psychobabble — writing or talk using jargon from psychiatry or psychotherapy without particular accuracy or relevance.
- public house — British. a tavern.
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- recalibrates — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
- researchable — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
- retranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.