12-letter words containing ab
- fertilizable — Capable of being fertilized.
- fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
- filtrability — the quality or extent of being filtrable
- flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
- flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- flammability — easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.
- floatability — capable of floating; that can be floated.
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- formalizable — Capable of being formalized.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- frequentable — Accessible.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
- gaming table — a table used for gambling, especially one designed with a game board and slots for chips.
- generability — capable of being generated or produced.
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- go walkabout — to wander through the bush
- gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
- grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- haberdashers — Plural form of haberdasher.
- haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
- habilimented — Clothed.
- habilitating — Present participle of habilitate.
- habilitation — to clothe or dress.
- habilitative — to clothe or dress.
- habitability — capable of being inhabited.
- habitational — a place of residence; dwelling; abode.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- hansom (cab) — a 19th-cent. two-wheeled covered carriage for two passengers, pulled by one horse: the driver's seat is above and behind the cab
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
- hatchability — to bring forth (young) from the egg.
- hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- hemimetaboly — Hemimetabolism.
- heritability — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- hexasyllable — a word or line of verse of six syllables.
- high-ability — (of a student) having a higher than average ability