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12-letter words containing b, a, s, c

  • backtrackers — Plural form of backtracker.
  • backwardness — toward the back or rear.
  • backwoodsman — Backwoodsmen are people, especially politicians, who like the old ways of doing things, or who are involved in an organization at a local level.
  • backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
  • bacon-slicer — a machine for cutting bacon into slices
  • bactericides — Plural form of bactericide.
  • bacteriostat — any substance that arrests the growth or reproduction of bacteria but does not kill them
  • bad scran to — bad luck to
  • bag snatcher — a thief whose main tactic is to grab women's handbags and run off with them
  • bait casting — the act or technique of casting an artificial or natural lure attached to a silk or nylon line wound on a reel having a revolving spool, the rod used being shorter and less flexible than that used in fly casting.
  • bait-casting — designating fishing equipment designed for use with live bait or artificial lures, in which the weight of the bait or lure pulls the line from a winch-type reel, as during casting or trolling
  • bald cypress — a tree, Taxodium distichum, of swampy areas of the southern U.S., having featherlike needles and cone-shaped projections growing up from the roots, yielding a hardwood used in construction, shipbuilding, etc.
  • balinese cat — a breed of cat with medium-length silky hair, a plumed tail, blue eyes, large ears, and a dark mask, tail, and paws
  • balsamaceous — any of various fragrant exudations from certain trees, especially trees of the genus Commiphora, as balm-of-Gilead. Compare balm (def 1).
  • balto-slavic — the Baltic and Slavic languages, when considered as constituting a subfamily within the Indo-European family of languages: the Baltic and Slavic branches are now generally considered by scholars as independently derived from Indo-European
  • banach space — a vector space on which a norm is defined that is complete.
  • bandersnatch — a fictional creature created by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, and appearing also in The Hunting of the Snark and Through the Looking-Glass
  • bank charges — penalties charged by a bank to a customer, for example when the customer's account is overdrawn or if a cheque is not honoured
  • bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
  • barbecue set — a set of tools used for barbecuing
  • barge course — the overhang of the gable end of a roof
  • barodynamics — the branch of mechanics concerned with heavy structures
  • barracks bag — a large bag containing a soldier's personal belongings and equipment
  • baseball cap — A baseball cap is a close-fitting cap with a curved part at the front that sticks out above your eyes.
  • basic jovial — (language)   A subset of JOVIAL written ca. 1965.
  • basic salary — base pay.
  • basic weight — basis weight.
  • basidiocarps — Plural form of basidiocarp.
  • basification — the process of making something alkaline
  • basilic vein — a large vein situated on the inner side of the arm
  • basket catch — a catch made with open glove with the palm up and the wrist kept close to and in front of the body.
  • basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
  • basmati rice — a variety of long-grain rice with slender aromatic grains, used for savoury dishes
  • bathyscaphes — Plural form of bathyscaphe.
  • battle clasp — clasp (def 4).
  • beachcombers — Plural form of beachcomber.
  • beaconsfield — a town in SE England, in Buckinghamshire. Pop: 12 292 (2001)
  • beam compass — an instrument for drawing large circles or arcs, consisting of a horizontal beam along which two vertical legs slide
  • beaumarchais — Pierre Augustin Caron de (pjɛr oɡystɛ̃ karɔ̃ də). 1732–99, French dramatist, noted for his comedies The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro (1784)
  • beggar-ticks — any of various plants, such as the bur marigold and tick trefoil, having fruits or seeds that cling to clothing, fur, etc
  • benefactress — a female benefactor
  • bespectacled — Someone who is bespectacled is wearing glasses.
  • bicameralism — having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
  • bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
  • bioacoustics — the study of animals' use of sound
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
  • biscay green — a yellowish green.
  • biscayne bay — an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the SE coast of Florida, separating the cities of Miami and Miami Beach.
  • biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
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