12-letter words containing b, v, a
- abbreviately — In an abbreviate way.
- abbreviating — Present participle of abbreviate.
- abbreviation — An abbreviation is a short form of a word or phrase, made by leaving out some of the letters or by using only the first letter of each word.
- abbreviatory — shortening
- abbreviature — an abbreviation
- abirritative — to make less irritable; soothe.
- abortiveness — imperfect development; rudimentary nature
- above ground — not underground
- abrasiveness — any material or substance used for grinding, polishing, etc., as emery, pumice, or sandpaper.
- absorptivity — a measure of the ability of a material to absorb radiation, equal to the internal absorptance of a homogeneous layer of the material under conditions in which the path of the radiation has unit length and the boundaries of the layer have no influence
- adverb group — An adverb group or adverbial group is a group of words based on an adverb, such as 'very slowly' or 'fortunately for us'. An adverb group can also consist simply of an adverb.
- adverbialize — to make (a word) into an adverb
- advertisable — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- advisability — proper to be suggested or recommended; desirable or wise, as a course of action: Is it advisable for me to write to him?
- air observer — observer (def 3).
- ambivalently — in an ambivalent manner
- availability — the quality or condition of being available
- avoidability — The possibility of avoiding; the state or condition of being avoidable.
- avowableness — the quality or condition of being avowable
- baker's oven — an oven used esp for baking bread
- baklava code — (humour, programming) Code with too many layers. Also known as Lasagne Code.
- balloon vine — a tropical tendril-climbing sapindaceous plant, Cardiospermum halicacabum, cultivated for its ornamental balloon-like seed capsules
- balto-slavic — the Baltic and Slavic languages, when considered as constituting a subfamily within the Indo-European family of languages: the Baltic and Slavic branches are now generally considered by scholars as independently derived from Indo-European
- barcoo river — a river in E central Australia, in SW Queensland: joins with the Thomson River to form Cooper Creek
- bard of avon — Shakespeare
- barrel vault — a vault in the form of a half cylinder
- bartlesville — a city in NE Oklahoma.
- basic jovial — (language) A subset of JOVIAL written ca. 1965.
- basilic vein — a large vein situated on the inner side of the arm
- basket weave — a weave of fabrics resembling the weave used in basket making
- basketweaver — a person who advocates simple, natural, and unsophisticated living
- beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
- beaver falls — a city in W Pennsylvania.
- beaver fever — an infectious disease caused by drinking water that has been contaminated by wildlife
- beaver state — Oregon (used as a nickname).
- behaviorally — manner of behaving or acting.
- behaviourism — Behaviourism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- beta version — beta testing
- bevel square — a woodworker's square with an adjustable arm that can be set to mark out an angle or to check the slope of a surface
- bib overalls — overall (def 3a).
- bioavailable — the extent to which a nutrient or medication can be used by the body.
- bioflavonoid — any of a group of biologically active flavone compounds that may help maintain the blood's capillary walls, reducing the likelihood of hemorrhaging: widely found in plants, esp. citrus fruits
- black velvet — a mixture of stout and champagne in equal proportions
- block caving — a method of mining a large block of ore by systematically undercutting so the ore will cave. Compare cave (def 5a).
- blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
- boniface vii — antipope a.d. 974, 984–985.
- bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
- boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
- boxgrove man — a type of primitive man, probably Homo heidelbergensis, and probably dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period some 500 000 years ago; remains were found at Boxgrove in West Sussex in 1993 and 1995
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