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12-letter words containing c, a, b

  • backgrounded — Simple past tense and past participle of background.
  • backgrounder — A backgrounder is a short article in a newspaper or magazine that provides background information about a particular subject.
  • backhandedly — In a backhanded manner.
  • backlighting — Movies, Television. a light source placed behind an actor, object, or scene to create a highlight that separates the subject from the background.
  • backpedaling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
  • backpedalled — (AU, NZ, British) Simple past tense and past participle of backpedal.
  • backpressure — a resistant pressure exerted by liquid or gas against the forward motion or flow of an exhaust or pipe system: Careful control of backpressure ensures an even supply of oil from the well.
  • backroom boy — You can refer to a man as a backroom boy when he does important work in an organization and has good ideas but is not seen or known about by the public.
  • backslapping — Backslapping is noisy, cheerful behavior which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • backslashing — Present participle of backslash.
  • backsolution — The process or result of backsolving.
  • backsplashes — Plural form of backsplash.
  • backstabbing — Backstabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
  • backstarting — a marketing technique in publishing, whereby new customers are sent back issues of magazines or journals as part of their subscription
  • backstitches — Plural form of backstitch.
  • backstopping — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
  • backswimmers — Plural form of backswimmer.
  • backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
  • backtrackers — Plural form of backtracker.
  • backtracking — to return over the same course or route.
  • backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
  • 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
  • bacteria bed — a layer of sand or gravel used to expose sewage effluent, in its final stages, to air and the action of microorganisms
  • bactericidal — any substance capable of killing bacteria.
  • bactericides — Plural form of bactericide.
  • bacteriocide — Alternative form of bactericide.
  • bacteriology — Bacteriology is the science and the study of bacteria.
  • 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
  • bahia blanca — a port in E Argentina. Pop: 276 000 (2005 est)
  • 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
  • baklava code — (humour, programming)   Code with too many layers. Also known as Lasagne Code.
  • balance beam — a long, narrow, horizontal wooden beam raised about 4 feet (1.2 m) above the floor, on which women gymnasts perform balancing routines consisting of jumps, tumbles, turns, running steps, etc.
  • balance pipe — a pipe between two points used to equalize pressure
  • 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
  • ball control — the skill of controlling the ball in a game such as football or tennis
  • ball-carrier — the offensive player having the ball and attempting to gain ground.
  • ballet blanc — a ballet in which the ballerinas' skirts are white.
  • balletically — in a balletic fashion; gracefully
  • 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
  • baluchithere — a hornless rhinoceros of the extinct genus Baluchitherium that inhabited central Asia during the Oligocene and early Miocene epochs: the largest land mammal known.
  • banach space — a vector space on which a norm is defined that is complete.
  • banbury cake — a cake consisting of a pastry base filled with currants, raisins, candied peel, and sugar, with a crisscross pattern on the top
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