12-letter words containing ab
- capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
- carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
- carriageable — (of a road, etc) able to be travelled in a carriage
- catch a crab — to make a stroke in which the oar either misses the water or digs too deeply, causing the rower to fall backwards
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- child labour — the full-time employment of children below a minimum age laid down by statute
- chinaberries — Plural form of chinaberry.
- circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
- classifiable — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
- cleanability — the ability to be cleaned
- clickability — (computing) The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked.
- clubbability — The quality of being clubbable.
- coachability — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- coconut crab — a large, terrestrial crab, Birgus latro, of islands in the South Pacific, that feeds on coconuts.
- coffee table — A coffee table is a small low table in a living room.
- cohabitating — cohabit.
- cohabitation — the state or condition of living together in a conjugal relationship without being married
- collaborated — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- collaborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collaborate.
- collaborator — A collaborator is someone that you work with to produce a piece of work, especially a book or some research.
- collectables — capable of being collected.
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- commemorable — worthy of being commemorated
- commiserable — worthy of commiseration; pitiable
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- complainable — That may be complained of.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
- confabulator — to converse informally; chat.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conscionable — acceptable to one's conscience
- conscionably — being in conformity with one's conscience; just.
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
- contabescent — unable to produce pollen
- contaminable — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- contemplable — able to be contemplated
- contemptable — Contemptible.
- contrabasses — Plural form of contrabass.
- contrabbasso — a double bass
- contractable — capable of being contracted
- contrastable — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
- controllable — If something is controllable you are able to control or influence it.
- controllably — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
- corbel table — a horizontal masonry construction, as a cornice or part of a wall, supported on corbels or on arches supported on corbels.
- corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
- corner table — a table of the 18th century having a triangular top with a triangular drop leaf of the same size.