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

  • bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
  • bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
  • breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
  • breakweather — any makeshift shelter.
  • breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
  • breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
  • 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.
  • breastsummer — a girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts
  • 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.
  • breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
  • breathalyzer — A Breathalyzer is a bag or electronic device that the police use to test whether a driver has drunk too much alcohol.
  • breathe easy — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
  • breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
  • breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
  • breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
  • brevicaudate — having a short tail.
  • brevipennate — (of flightless birds) short-winged
  • bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • brigham city — a city in N Utah.
  • bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
  • brilliantine — a perfumed oil used to make the hair smooth and shiny
  • bring action — to start a lawsuit
  • bring to bay — to force into a position from which retreat is impossible
  • british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
  • british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
  • brittle star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, having the body composed of a central, rounded disk from which radiate long, slender, fragile arms.
  • brittle-star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, occurring on the sea bottom and having five long slender arms radiating from a small central disc
  • 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.
  • brushability — the quality of being brushable
  • buck private — a common soldier
  • buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
  • buenaventura — a major port in W Colombia, on the Pacific coast. Pop: 250 000 (2005 est)
  • buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
  • bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
  • bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
  • bunny rabbit — rabbit
  • bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
  • burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
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