12-letter words containing a, d, r, s, t
- bastard wing — a tuft of feathers attached to the first digit of a bird, distinct from the wing feathers attached to the other digits and the ulna
- bastardizing — Present participle of bastardize.
- bastardsword — Alternative spelling of bastard sword.
- battle dress — military field uniform and accouterments, generally camouflaged and stripped of all ornamentation.
- beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
- beth midrash — a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue.
- board shorts — shorts with longer legs, originally meant to protect a surfer's legs against the surfboard
- bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
- bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
- border state — a state adjacent to a border
- border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
- bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
- bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
- breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- 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.
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
- cardan shaft — A cardan shaft or cardan drive is a propeller shaft fitted with universal joints at each end.
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- 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 standard — (in Britain) a standard accepted voluntarily by building societies relating to charges, access, etc, against which Individual Savings Accounts can be judged
- cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers
- catbird seat — an enviable position, as of power
- cathode rays — a stream of electrons emitted from the surface of a cathode in a valve
- centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- chondrostian — relating to the class Chondrostei of fish with fin rays
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- closet drama — drama suitable for reading rather than performing
- cold storage — If something such as food is put in cold storage, it is kept in an artificially-cooled place in order to preserve it.
- commiserated — Simple past tense and past participle of commiserate.
- confederates — Plural form of confederate.
- conquistador — The conquistadors were the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Central and South America.
- considerated — Simple past tense and past participle of considerate.
- consolidator — a person or thing that consolidates
- consternated — to dismay, confuse, or terrify.
- contradances — Plural form of contradance.
- coordinators — Plural form of coordinator.
- cordialities — cordial quality or feeling.
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- credit sales — sales for which the customer does not need to pay immediately
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- crystallised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystallise.
- crystallized — Crystallized fruits and sweets are covered in sugar which has been melted and then allowed to go hard.
- crystalloids — Plural form of crystalloid.