12-letter words containing a, d, r, s
- 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.
- bearded seal — a large gray-to-golden seal, Erignathus barbatus, inhabiting the Arctic Ocean and adjacent waters, having square foreflippers and a thick mustache of long bristles on each side of the muzzle.
- beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
- bell gardens — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- beth midrash — a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue.
- biohazardous — a pathogen, especially one used in or produced by biological research.
- board school — (formerly) a school managed by a board elected by local ratepayers
- board shorts — shorts with longer legs, originally meant to protect a surfer's legs against the surfboard
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- body repairs — repairs to the bodywork of cars
- body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
- 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
- bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
- bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
- braggadocios — empty boasting; bragging.
- brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
- 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.
- burmese jade — jadeite of the finest quality: a true jade.
- buzzards bay — arm of the Atlantic, on the SE coast of Mass., at the base of Cape Cod peninsula
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- 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.
- camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- 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
- card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
- card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
- cardan shaft — A cardan shaft or cardan drive is a propeller shaft fitted with universal joints at each end.
- cardinal sin — If you describe an action as a cardinal sin, you are indicating that some people strongly disapprove of it.
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- cardinalfish — any of the perchlike fishes of the family Apogonidae, many species of which are bright red with black markings.
- cardinalship — The office (or term of office) of a cardinal.
- cardiographs — Plural form of cardiograph.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- carisoprodol — a crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 12 H 24 N 2 O 4 , used as a muscle relaxant.
- casehardened — Simple past tense and past participle of caseharden.