12-Letter Words Starting AB & Ending S

• the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery)

• one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work

• gibberish and nonsense

• a shortened version of a written work

• the property of being absorbent

• a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber

• the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

• the quality of being sharply disagreeable

• a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge

• a novice learning the rudiments of some subject

• alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)