12-letter words containing a, c, r, i
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
- breuer chair — a chair with a frame of continuous chrome tubing, no back legs, and cane seat and back
- brevicaudate — having a short tail.
- bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
- brigham city — a city in N Utah.
- bring action — to start a lawsuit
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
- buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
- buck private — a common soldier
- bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
- butyric acid — type of acid
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cabot strait — a channel in Canada, connecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the Atlantic Ocean. 68 miles (109 km) wide.
- cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- cachinnatory — Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
- 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
- calendar api — Calendar Application Programming Interface
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- caliper rule — a graduated rule with one sliding jaw and one that is stationary
- calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
- calligrapher — A calligrapher is a person skilled in the art of calligraphy.
- calligraphic — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
- calling card — A calling card is a small card with personal information about you on it, such as your name and address, which you can give to people when you go to visit them.
- calorie-free — containing no calories
- calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
- calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
- calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
- camber piece — a centering for a flat arch, slightly crowned to allow for settling of the arch.
- camel's hair — the hair of the camel
- camel's-hair — made of camel's hair.
- cameralistic — of or relating to public finance.
- camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
- camp springs — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- camphorating — Present participle of camphorate.
- campo formio — a village in NE Italy, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia: scene of the signing of a treaty in 1797 that ended the war between revolutionary France and Austria
- campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
- cancellarial — relating to a chancellor
- cancer stick — a cigarette.
- cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.