12-letter words containing a, r, n, t, l
- balloon tire — a wide, deep-walled pneumatic tire with relatively low air pressure to lessen the shock of bumps
- balloon tyre — a pneumatic tyre containing air at a relatively low pressure and having a wide tread
- battlefronts — Plural form of battlefront.
- battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
- bengal tiger — a large tiger found in S. Asia
- binocularity — binocular characteristics
- biparentally — from a biparental point of view
- bipropellant — a rocket propellant consisting of two substances, usually a fuel and an oxidizer
- blackcurrant — In Europe, blackcurrants are a type of very small, dark purple fruits that grow in bunches on bushes.
- blanket roll — a blanket or sleeping bag rolled into a cylindrical pack for easy carrying and outdoor use by hikers, soldiers, cowboys, etc., often with cooking utensils, food, and personal articles carried inside.
- blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
- bletheration — nonsense!
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- branch plant — a plant or factory in Canada belonging to a company whose headquarters are in another country
- brazilianite — a mineral, sodium aluminum phosphate, Na 2 Al 6 P 4 O 16 (OH) 8 , occurring in yellow-green crystals with a vitreous luster: used as a gem.
- brilliantine — a perfumed oil used to make the hair smooth and shiny
- bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
- cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
- carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- carnot cycle — an idealized reversible heat-engine cycle giving maximum efficiency and consisting of an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal compression, and an adiabatic compression back to the initial state
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
- carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
- caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- catilinarian — pertaining to or resembling Catiline.
- cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
- center plate — one of a pair of plates that fit together and support the body of a car on a truck, while allowing the truck to rotate with respect to the body. One plate (body center plate) is attached to the underside of the car body and the other (truck center plate) is part of the car truck.
- central asia — a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south. It includes the five former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as Afghanistan and parts of Iran, China, Mongolia, Pakistan, India, and southwestern Siberia.
- central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
- central city — the principal municipality of a metropolitan area, surrounded by suburbs and smaller towns; esp., the crowded, industrial, often blighted area
- central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
- central time — standard time or daylight saving time in the time zone which includes the central states of the U.S.
- central-fire — center-fire.
- centralising — Present participle of centralise.
- centralizing — Present participle of centralize.
- centroclinal — of, relating to, or designating a rock formation in which the strata slope down and in towards a central point or area
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- centrolineal — Of lines, converging to a centre.