12-letter words containing a, c, e, r, t
- breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
- brevicaudate — having a short tail.
- bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
- buck private — a common soldier
- bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
- butter sauce — a sauce made of melted butter, often diluted with water, sometimes thickened with flour or egg yolk, or both, and seasoned with lemon juice.
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- cabbage tree — a tree, Cordyline australis, of New Zealand having a tall branchless trunk and a palmlike top
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cacao butter — cocoa butter
- cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
- cafe curtain — a short curtain suspended directly downward from a series of rings sliding on a horizontal rod so as to cover the lower and sometimes upper portions of a window.
- cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
- caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
- calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
- call letters — Call letters are the letters and numbers which identify a person, vehicle, or organization that is broadcasting on the radio or sending messages by radio.
- caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
- calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
- calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
- calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
- caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
- cameralistic — of or relating to public finance.
- camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
- camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
- cancer stick — a cigarette.
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
- canton crepe — a fine crinkled silk or rayon crepe fabric, slightly heavier than crepe de Chine
- canton river — Zhu Jiang.
- cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
- capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
- captive-bred — bred in captivity
- caravan site — A caravan site is an area of land where people can stay in a caravan on holiday, or where people live in caravans.
- carbohydrate — Carbohydrates are substances, found in certain kinds of food, that provide you with energy. Foods such as sugar and bread that contain these substances can also be referred to as carbohydrates.
- carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
- carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
- carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
- card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
- card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- cardioactive — of or relating to a drug or other substance affecting the function of the heart.
- carey street — (formerly) the street in which the London bankruptcy court was situated
- cargo pocket — a large patch pocket, usually pleated at the sides and often having a flap.
- carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
- carnot cycle — an idealized reversible heat-engine cycle giving maximum efficiency and consisting of an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal compression, and an adiabatic compression back to the initial state
- carol stream — a town in NE Illinois.
- carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
- carpet grass — either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.