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12-letter words containing a, r, e, c, o

  • black copper — a regulus of 95-percent-pure copper, produced in a blast furnace by smelting oxidized copper ores.
  • black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
  • black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
  • black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
  • black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
  • black scoter — a scoter of Eurasia and North America, Melanitta nigra, the adult male of which is black.
  • block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
  • bobbery pack — a mixed pack of hunting dogs, often not belonging to any of the hound breeds
  • 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
  • bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
  • boot-scraper — a contraption consisting of an upright metal shape formerly placed outside some houses to enable people to scrape the mud from their boots before going in
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
  • box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
  • brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
  • bracket foot — a corner foot of a chest or the like joining the sides in a concave line.
  • branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
  • breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
  • breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
  • broca's area — the region of the cerebral cortex of the brain concerned with speech; the speech centre
  • brochureware — (jargon, business)   A planned, but non-existent, product, like vaporware but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed to con customers into not committing to a competing existing product. The term is now especially applicable to new websites, website revisions, and ancillary services such as customer support and product return. Owing to the explosion of database-driven, cookie-using dot-coms (of the sort that can now deduce that you are, in fact, a dog), the term is now also used to describe sites made up of static HTML pages that contain not much more than contact info and mission statements. The term suggests that the company is small, irrelevant to the web, local in scope, clueless, broke, just starting out, or some combination thereof. Many new companies without product, funding, or even staff, post brochureware with investor info and press releases to help publicise their ventures. As of December 1999, examples include pop.com and cdradio.com. Small-timers that really have no business on the web such as lawncare companies and divorce laywers inexplicably have brochureware made that stays unchanged for years.
  • bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • calcareously — in a calcareous manner
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
  • candleholder — a candlestick
  • canine corps — a military or law enforcement body which uses dogs for the detection of explosives or drugs or for security, tracking, etc
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