12-letter words containing a, b, i, r, t
- bitter apple — colocynth
- bitter lakes — two lakes, the Great Bitter Lake and Little Bitter Lake in NE Egypt: part of the Suez Canal
- blatherskite — a talkative silly person
- blaue reiter — der Blaue Reiter. a group of German expressionist painters formed in Munich in 1911, including Kandinsky and Klee, who sought to express the spiritual side of man and nature, which they felt had been neglected by impressionism
- blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
- bletheration — nonsense!
- blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
- blues guitar — blues guitar music
- boar-hunting — the practice of hunting wild boars
- boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
- boating trip — a trip or holiday in a boat such as a sailing boat or canal boat
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- brain teaser — A brain teaser is a question, problem, or puzzle that is difficult to answer or solve, but is not serious or important.
- brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
- brain-teaser — a puzzle or problem whose solution requires great ingenuity.
- brains trust — a group of knowledgeable people who discuss topics in public or on radio or television
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- brake assist — a part of a vehicle's braking system that automatically boosts braking pressure in an emergency situation
- branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
- brazilianite — a mineral, sodium aluminum phosphate, Na 2 Al 6 P 4 O 16 (OH) 8 , occurring in yellow-green crystals with a vitreous luster: used as a gem.
- breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
- breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
- brevicaudate — having a short tail.
- brevipennate — (of flightless birds) short-winged
- bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
- bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
- brigham city — a city in N Utah.
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- brilliantine — a perfumed oil used to make the hair smooth and shiny
- bring action — to start a lawsuit
- bring to bay — to force into a position from which retreat is impossible
- british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
- british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
- brittle star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, having the body composed of a central, rounded disk from which radiate long, slender, fragile arms.
- brittle-star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, occurring on the sea bottom and having five long slender arms radiating from a small central disc
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- brown bag it — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brushability — the quality of being brushable
- buck private — a common soldier
- bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- bunny rabbit — rabbit
- bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
- burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
- burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace