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12-letter words containing a, t, o, r

  • boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
  • boating trip — a trip or holiday in a boat such as a sailing boat or canal boat
  • 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.
  • bomb factory — a site or building in which terrorists illicitly and secretly create bombs
  • bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
  • boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
  • boomer state — Oklahoma
  • booster seat — A booster seat or a booster cushion is a special seat which allows a small child to sit in a higher position, for example at a table or in a car.
  • 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
  • border state — a state adjacent to a border
  • border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
  • 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.
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
  • bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • bottom break — a branch coming from the bottom of a plant stem, usually formed by pinching and disbudding.
  • bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
  • bottom quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 4.7 to 5.3 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • bracket foot — a corner foot of a chest or the like joining the sides in a concave line.
  • brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
  • branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
  • breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breaststroke — Breaststroke is a swimming stroke which you do lying on your front, moving your arms and legs horizontally in a circular motion.
  • breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
  • breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
  • bring action — to start a lawsuit
  • bring to bay — to force into a position from which retreat is impossible
  • broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
  • broken heart — If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
  • broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
  • bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
  • bromomethane — methyl bromide.
  • brontosaurus — any very large herbivorous quadrupedal dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus, common in North America during Jurassic times, having a long neck and long tail: suborder Sauropoda (sauropods)
  • brown bag it — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • bypass ratio — the ratio of the amount of air that bypasses the combustion chambers of an aircraft gas turbine to that passing through them
  • cabot strait — a channel in Canada, connecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the Atlantic Ocean. 68 miles (109 km) wide.
  • cacao butter — cocoa butter
  • cachinnatory — Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
  • calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
  • call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
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