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

  • 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
  • burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
  • 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.
  • butter paper — a semi-transparent, waterproof paper used for wrapping butter, etc
  • 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
  • buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
  • bypass ratio — the ratio of the amount of air that bypasses the combustion chambers of an aircraft gas turbine to that passing through them
  • c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
  • cantabrigian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Cambridge or Cambridge University, or of Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Harvard University
  • canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
  • captive-bred — bred in captivity
  • carbocations — Plural form of carbocation.
  • carbohydrate — Carbohydrates are substances, found in certain kinds of food, that provide you with energy. Foods such as sugar and bread that contain these substances can also be referred to as carbohydrates.
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • carotid body — a small mass of cells and nerve endings adjacent to the carotid sinus that, in response to chemical changes in the blood, adjusts the respiratory rate.
  • carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
  • carpetbagger — If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.
  • carpetbeater — A tool used in housecleaning that was in common use before the invention of the vacuum cleaner.
  • carrick bitt — either of a pair of strong posts used for supporting a windlass
  • carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
  • catbird seat — an enviable position, as of power
  • catch a crab — to make a stroke in which the oar either misses the water or digs too deeply, causing the rower to fall backwards
  • celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
  • celebreality — a television genre that is unscripted and involves either the day-to-day documentation of a celebrity’s life or competitive challenges that a celebrity or celebrities must perform
  • celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
  • centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
  • cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
  • cerebropathy — A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed.
  • cerebrotonia — a personality type characterized by restraint, alertness, and an intellectual approach to life: said to be correlated with an ectomorph body type
  • chamber tomb — a prehistoric tomb with a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
  • chapter book — a children's book, typically a work of fiction, of moderate length and complexity, divided into chapters and intended for readers approximately seven to ten years old
  • chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
  • chatterboxes — Plural form of chatterbox.
  • chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
  • circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
  • clara barton — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
  • cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
  • cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
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