12-letter words containing s, u, b, c
- double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
- duchesse bed — a bed having a suspended, full-length tester.
- ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- gas bacillus — any of several pathogenic bacilli, especially of the genus Clostridium, that produce gas in infected tissue.
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- in substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incumbencies — Plural form of incumbency.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- incunabulist — a person who specialises in incunabula, a collector of incunabula
- inexcuseable — Alternative form of inexcusable.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- instructible — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- insubjection — lack of subjection, or the state of being disobedient to an authority, such as a government
- job security — chances of staying in employment
- just because — for the sole reason that
- knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
- knucklebones — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
- lactalbumins — Plural form of lactalbumin.
- le corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- lobeliaceous — belonging to the plant family Lobeliaceae.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lubriciously — In a lubricious manner.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- macaberesque — resembling or suggestive of the danse macabre; macabre
- marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microfibrous — Composed of microscopic fibres.
- micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- 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.
- noctambulism — somnambulism.
- noctambulist — somnambulism.
- noctambulous — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- obfuscations — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obmutescence — persistent silence
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
- obstructions — Plural form of obstruction.
- of substance — wealthy