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12-letter words containing b, s, e, t

  • bull thistle — a tall, spiny thistle, Cirsium vulgare, having heads of pink to purple flowers: a common weed in North America.
  • burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • 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.
  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
  • by the balls — so as to be rendered powerless
  • by the score — If things happen or exist by the score, they happen or exist in large numbers.
  • cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
  • cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
  • cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
  • 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.
  • canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
  • capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
  • catbird seat — an enviable position, as of power
  • celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
  • celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
  • centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
  • cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
  • chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
  • chatterboxes — Plural form of chatterbox.
  • class object — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, an object of class "class" that represents a class at run time. The existence of class objects allows introspection - the ability for a program to discover and modify attributes of its own code. (See self-modifying code). A class object may also be used for "housekeeping" tasks like keeping count of how many objects of the class have been created, though this may also be done by some kind of collection object. A class method is a method that operates on class objects.
  • cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
  • close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
  • clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
  • cluster bomb — A cluster bomb is a type of bomb which is dropped from an aircraft. It contains a large number of smaller bombs that spread out before they hit the ground.
  • cobblestoned — Cobbled; laid with cobblestones.
  • cobblestones — Plural form of cobblestone.
  • cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
  • cock lobster — a male lobster
  • cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
  • collaborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collaborate.
  • collectables — capable of being collected.
  • collectibles — capable of being collected.
  • combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
  • comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
  • computer bus — bus
  • contabescent — unable to produce pollen
  • contrabasses — Plural form of contrabass.
  • contrastable — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
  • contributers — Misspelling of contributors.
  • convertibles — Plural form of convertible.
  • core subject — the three foundation subjects (English, mathematics, and science) that are compulsory throughout each key stage in the National Curriculum
  • corroborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corroborate.
  • cost-benefit — denoting or relating to a method of assessing a project that takes into account its costs and its benefits to society as well as the revenue it generates
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