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12-letter words containing a, d, r, e

  • caesar salad — Caesar salad is a type of salad containing lettuce, eggs, cheese, and small pieces of fried bread, served with a dressing of oil, vinegar, and herbs.
  • 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 api — Calendar Application Programming Interface
  • calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
  • calendar day — the period from one midnight to the following midnight.
  • calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
  • camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • camera ready — (publication)   A final edition of a document or graphic (e.g. a newspaper advertisement or a technical paper for a journal) that is of suitable quality for mass reproduction by making printing plates from the negatives by photoengraving.
  • camera-ready — designating or of copy, artwork, etc. that is ready to be photographed for making into a plate for printing
  • campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
  • campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
  • candleholder — a candlestick
  • candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
  • cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
  • cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
  • cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • cape verdean — of or relating to Cape Verde or its inhabitants
  • cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
  • capraldehyde — (chemistry) decanal.
  • captive-bred — bred in captivity
  • caraway seed — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of this plant, used in cooking and in medicine
  • carbohydrase — a digestive enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates through hydrolysis
  • 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.
  • 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
  • cardinal red — a deep, vivid red colour
  • cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
  • cardioactive — of or relating to a drug or other substance affecting the function of the heart.
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
  • carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
  • carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
  • carriage dog — Dalmatian (sense 4)
  • carrick bend — type of knot
  • carried away — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
  • carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
  • casehardened — Simple past tense and past participle of caseharden.
  • cash-starved — A cash-starved company or organization does not have enough money to operate properly, usually because another organization, such as the government, is not giving them the money that they need.
  • cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers
  • cataphracted — covered with an armor of horny or bony plates or scales.
  • catbird seat — an enviable position, as of power
  • catheterized — Simple past tense and past participle of catheterize.
  • cathiodermie — a beauty treatment for the skin, which involves using electrotherapy
  • cathode rays — a stream of electrons emitted from the surface of a cathode in a valve
  • cattle drive — the process of moving cattle across country, often carried out by cowboys on horseback
  • cattle guard — A cattle guard is the same as a cattle grid.
  • cattleduffer — a cattle thief.
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