12-letter words containing b
- arabian gulf — an arm of the Arabian Sea, between SW Iran and Arabia. 600 miles (965 km) long.
- 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.
- arba kanfoth — a rectangular piece of cloth with fringes at the four corners and a hole in the center for the head, worn under the clothes by Orthodox Jewish males.
- arbitrageurs — Plural form of arbitrageur.
- arbitrations — Plural form of arbitration.
- arborescence — treelike in size and form.
- arborio rice — variety of round-grain rice used for making risotto
- arborization — a branching treelike appearance in certain fossils and minerals
- archibenthos — the ocean bottom between the littoral and abyssal zones: from depths of approximately 200 feet (60 meters) to 3300 feet (1000 meters).
- archiblastic — of, relating to, or derived from an archiblast.
- 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.
- around about — Around about means approximately.
- arousability — to stimulate sexually.
- 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
- aschoff body — any of the spindleshaped nodules found in heart tissue and associated with the myocarditis of rheumatic fever.
- ashurbanipal — died ?626 bc, king of Assyria (?668–?626): son of Esarhaddon. He built the magnificent palace and library at Nineveh
- ass-backward — the wrong way round; back to front; in the opposite order to what is considered normal
- assassin bug — any long-legged predatory, often blood-sucking, insect of the heteropterous family Reduviidae
- assault boat — a portable boat used for landing troops on beaches and for crossing rivers.
- assbackwards — in an order or way reverse from the usual: You've sewn the sleeve on assbackwards.
- assemblagist — a creative person or artist who is skilled in putting together works of art based on assemblage
- assibilation — (linguistics) A sound change resulting in a sibilant consonant, commonly the final phase of palatalization.
- assumability — a mortgage loan or a feature of such that allows the buyer of a property to assume or take on the existing mortgage from the property seller
- assumed bond — a bond issued by one corporation and assumed as an obligation by another.
- assurbanipal — Ashurbanipal
- astonishable — (obsolete) Astonishing.
- astrobiology — the branch of biology that investigates the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe
- 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
- atrabilarian — Characterized by melancholy or glum; atrabilarious; atrabilious.
- 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.
- attributions — Plural form of attribution.
- atychiphobia — (rare) The fear of failure.
- authorizable — able to be authorized
- autoantibody — an antibody reacting with an antigen that is a part of the organism in which the antibody is formed
- 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.
- automobiling — (dated) present participle of automobile.
- automobilism — the use of automobiles, or the practices associated with them
- automobilist — Driver; person who uses a motor vehicle such as car, van or truck.
- automobility — the use of motor cars
- availability — the quality or condition of being available