12-letter words containing t, a, b, e, i, c
- magic bullet — something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.
- metabolomics — the study of all the metabolites present in cells, tissues, and organs
- metabonomics — (biochemistry, genetics) metabolomics.
- metabotropic — Describing a neurotransmitter or cell receptor whose action is mediated by metabolic functions (e.g. enzyme activation).
- metacinnabar — a polymorph of cinnabar, black mercuric sulfide, HgS.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- monte bianco — Mon·te [mawn-te] /ˈmɔn tɛ/ (Show IPA). Italian name of Mont Blanc.
- mycobacteria — Plural form of mycobacterium.
- non-celibate — a person who abstains from sexual relations.
- nonbacterial — Not bacterial.
- noncombative — Not combative.
- notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- obstetrician — a physician who specializes in obstetrics. Abbreviation: OB, ob.
- osteoblastic — a bone-forming cell.
- participable — capable of being shared.
- payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
- picnic table — table-and-bench structure used outdoors
- pipe tobacco — tobacco suitable for use in a tobacco pipe
- precipitable — capable of being precipitated.
- prefabricate — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- re-calibrate — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- reachability — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
- recalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- recalibrates — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- retranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- 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.
- semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
- subcelestial — being beneath the heavens; terrestrial.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.
- supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
- tablet chair — a chair with one arm extending and expanding into a writing surface.
- teachability — capable of being instructed, as a person; docile.
- teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
- teaching job — a position as a teacher
- technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
- technophobia — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.