12-letter words containing a, e, o
- brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
- brown bagger — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown canker — a fungous disease of roses, characterized by leaf and flower lesions, stem cankers surrounded by a reddish-purple border, and dieback.
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- bubble float — a hollow spherical float that can be weighted with water to aid casting
- bucket about — (esp of a boat in a storm) to toss or shake violently
- buenos aires — the capital of Argentina, a major port and industrial city on the Río de la Plata estuary: became capital in 1880; university (1821). Pop: 13 349 000 (2005 est)
- buffalo robe — a carriage robe or rug made of the skin of the bison, dressed with the hair on
- buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
- bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
- burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
- burseraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Burseraceae, a tropical family of trees and shrubs having compound leaves and resin or balsam in their stems. The family includes bdellium and some balsams
- by reason of — If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it.
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
- cabbage rose — a rose, Rosa centifolia, with a round compact full-petalled head
- 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
- cacao butter — cocoa butter
- cache memory — a small area of memory in a computer that can be accessed very quickly
- cacodaemonic — Daemonic.
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
- cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
- caenogenesis — the development of structures and organs in an embryo or larva that are adaptations to its way of life and are not retained in the adult form
- caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
- cafe society — people, esp intellectuals and artists who meet in cafés
- calcareously — in a calcareous manner
- call collect — If you call collect when you make a telephone call, the person who you are phoning pays the cost of the call and not you.
- call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
- caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
- calorescence — the absorption of radiation by a body, subsequently re-emitted at a higher frequency (lower wavelength)
- calorie-free — containing no calories
- calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
- calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
- calycoideous — calycoid
- cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- camera phone — A camera phone is a mobile phone that can also take photographs.
- caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
- camerapeople — a person who operates a camera, especially a movie or TV camera.
- cameraperson — a camera operator
- camomile tea — a medicinal beverage made from the fragrant leaves and flowers of any of these plants
- camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
- 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
- canada goose — A Canada goose is a grayish-brown wild goose that comes from North America.
- cancellation — the fact or an instance of cancelling
- cancelpoodle — (messaging) (Or Cancelbunny) A manifestation of the Cancelmoose in the form of a more selective (and probably not automated) way to cancel Usenet articles. The term became common during the alt.religion.scientology wars of the mid-90s, during which Cancelpoodles were used. The "poodle" part is an allusion to one of the parties obliquely involved in the fray, who an earlier well-known witticism had compared to "a psychotic poodle".
- cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer