12-letter words containing n, a, b, t, e
- pause button — a button on a video or music player which can be pressed to temporarily stop the playing of the recording
- payment bond — See under contract bond.
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- picnic table — table-and-bench structure used outdoors
- plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
- port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
- powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- presbyterian — pertaining to or based on the principle of ecclesiastical government by presbyters or presbyteries.
- protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
- protuberancy — protuberance.
- quantifiable — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quarter bend — a 90° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
- questionable — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- questionably — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- quotableness — the condition or quality of being quotable
- rabbet joint — a joint between rabbeted parts.
- rabbet plane — a plane for cutting rabbets or the like, having a blade set to one side at right angles or diagonally to the direction of motion.
- rating badge — a badge that indicates the rank and specialty of a petty officer: worn on the upper left sleeve.
- reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
- rehabilitant — a person who is undergoing rehabilitation, especially for a physical disability.
- renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- restrainable — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- retranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- rubber plant — a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.
- saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
- saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
- sainte-beuve — Charles Augustin [sharl oh-gy-stan] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1804–69, French literary critic.
- salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanctus bell — a bell rung during the celebration of Mass to call attention to the more solemn parts.
- sand-blasted — a blast of air or steam laden with sand, used to clean, grind, cut, or decorate hard surfaces, as of glass, stone, or metal.
- sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
- santa isabel — former name of Malabo.
- scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- semibasement — a basement partly above ground, as in a house built on a slope.
- sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
- sino-tibetan — a family of languages including especially Burmese, Tibetan, and the various local languages and dialects whose speakers share literary Chinese as their standard language.
- snake-bitten — bitten by a snake.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves