12-letter words containing b, a, r, c
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- braggadocios — empty boasting; bragging.
- brahmacharya — the stage of life of the student, entailing study of the Vedas and complete celibacy, usually lasting for twelve years.
- brain-picker — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- branch plant — a plant or factory in Canada belonging to a company whose headquarters are in another country
- branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
- branch water — water from a stream, as opposed to mineral or soda water
- brass-collar — unwaveringly faithful to a political party; voting the straight ticket: a brass-collar Democrat.
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- brazen-faced — shameless or impudent
- breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
- breaker card — the first card in the carding process, used to open the raw stock and to convert it into sliver form.
- 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.
- breuer chair — a chair with a frame of continuous chrome tubing, no back legs, and cane seat and back
- brevicaudate — having a short tail.
- bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
- brigham city — a city in N Utah.
- bring action — to start a lawsuit
- broad church — You can refer to an organization, group, or area of activity as a broad church when it includes a wide range of opinions, beliefs, or styles.
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- 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.
- bronchospasm — an abnormal contraction of the bronchi resulting in restriction of the airway
- 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.
- buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
- buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
- buck private — a common soldier
- buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
- bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
- bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
- 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
- butter sauce — a sauce made of melted butter, often diluted with water, sometimes thickened with flour or egg yolk, or both, and seasoned with lemon juice.
- butyric acid — type of acid
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- cabbage rose — a rose, Rosa centifolia, with a round compact full-petalled head
- cabbage tree — a tree, Cordyline australis, of New Zealand having a tall branchless trunk and a palmlike top
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cabora bassa — the site on the Zambezi River in N Mozambique of the largest dam in southern Africa
- cabot strait — a channel in Canada, connecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the Atlantic Ocean. 68 miles (109 km) wide.
- 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
- cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
- 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.