13-letter words containing ab
- baby-batterer — a person who physically abuses a baby or young child
- back-stabbing — Back-stabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
- band-aid baby — a child conceived to strengthen a faltering relationship
- bang on about — If someone bangs on about something, they keep talking about it in a boring or annoying way.
- be nuts about — to be greatly in love with
- be wild about — If you are wild about someone or something, you like them very much.
- bedside table — a small table beside a bed
- believability — to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.
- biodegradable — Something that is biodegradable breaks down or decays naturally without any special scientific treatment, and can therefore be thrown away without causing pollution.
- blair's babes — (in Britain) the female Members of Parliament elected as part of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government in 1997
- blameableness — the quality of being blameable
- bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
- booster cable — either of a pair of electric cables having clamps at each end and used for starting the engine of a vehicle whose battery is dead.
- bouillabaisse — Bouillabaisse is a rich stew or soup of fish and vegetables.
- breakableness — the quality of being breakable
- breathability — fitness to be breathed
- broccoli raab — a plant (Brassica rapa ruvo) of the crucifer family with close clusters of small flowers and dark green, somewhat bitter leaves cooked as a vegetable
- broccoli rabe — a plant, Brassica rapa ruvo, of which the slightly bitter, dark-green leaves and clustered flower buds are eaten as a vegetable.
- cab rank rule — the rule that obliges barristers to take on any client in strict rotation
- cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
- cabbage white — any large white butterfly of the genus Pieris, esp the Eurasian species P. brassicae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related vegetables: family Pieridae
- cabbalistical — cabbalistic
- cabin cruiser — A cabin cruiser is a motor boat which has a cabin for people to live or sleep in.
- cabinet maker — A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cabinet-maker — a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.
- cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
- cabinetmaking — the manufacture of fine furniture and other woodwork.
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- cable railway — a railway on which individual cars are drawn along by a strong cable or metal chain operated by a stationary motor
- cable release — a short length of flexible cable, used to operate the shutter of a camera without shaking it
- cable tramway — tramway (def 4).
- calabash tree — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- calculability — determinable by calculation; ascertainable: This map was designed so that distances by road are easily calculable.
- capitalizable — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- capstan table — drum table.
- carlton table — an English writing table of c1800, having curved rear corners and a top with drawers surmounted by a U -shaped section of drawers and cabinets, topped by a brass or ormolu gallery surrounding three sides of the writing area.
- casual labour — people who are employed on a temporary, rather than a permanent or regular basis
- catabolically — In terms of catabolism.
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
- cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
- challengeable — a call or summons to engage in any contest, as of skill, strength, etc.
- changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
- chargeability — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
- charitability — Charitableness.
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- china cabinet — a cabinet in which china is stored when not in use
- clear a table — When you clear a table, you remove things from it that you do not want to be there.
- cleavableness — the quality of being cleavable
- coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.