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12-letter words containing c, r, a, b, s

  • factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
  • fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
  • fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
  • fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
  • forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
  • forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
  • 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.
  • hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
  • hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
  • 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.)
  • incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
  • inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
  • inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
  • irascibility — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
  • jackass bark — a barkentine square-rigged on the mainmast above a gaff mainsail.
  • jackass brig — a two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast with a fore-and-aft mainsail; brigantine.
  • labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • liberalistic — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
  • lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
  • lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
  • macaberesque — resembling or suggestive of the danse macabre; macabre
  • macrobiotics — a philosophically oriented program incorporating elements from several ancient cultures and emphasizing harmony with nature, especially through adherence to a diet consisting primarily of whole grains, beans, vegetables, and moderate amounts of seafood and fruit.
  • marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
  • nonbroadcast — not broadcast to a wide audience, supplied on a hidden or private network
  • noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
  • noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
  • obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
  • obstetrician — a physician who specializes in obstetrics. Abbreviation: OB, ob.
  • oracle bones — animal bones used for divination
  • orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
  • osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
  • 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
  • parisyllabic — (of a noun or verb, in inflected languages) containing the same number of syllables in all or almost all inflected forms
  • polysaprobic — flourishing in a body of water having a heavy load of decomposed organic matter and almost no free oxygen
  • postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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