12-letter words containing c, b, r, a
- sea cucumber — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having a long, leathery body with tentacles around the anterior end.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
- semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
- sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- specbaserate — A variant of SPECrate that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules. See SPECrate_base_fp92, SPECrate_base_int92.
- star chamber — a former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat without a jury and that became noted for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments, abolished 1641.
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- sub-tropical — Sub-tropical places have a climate that is warm and wet, and are often near tropical regions.
- subantarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately north of the Antarctic Circle; subpolar.
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- subarcuation — a structure that is somewhat arched
- subauricular — situated below the ear.
- subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
- subcuticular — the nonliving epidermis that surrounds the edges of the fingernail or toenail.
- suberic acid — a crystalline dibasic acid, C 8 H 1 4 O 4 , obtained especially from suberin, castor oil, and cork: used chiefly in the preparation of plastics and plasticizers.
- subfactorial — the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged so that none of the objects are in their original or correct place
- subjudiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
- submolecular — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- subopercular — of or relating to the suboperculum
- suborbicular — nearly circular or orblike
- subprincipal — an assistant or deputy principal.
- subscribable — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- subsecretary — a secretary subordinate to another secretary
- substraction — the act or process of subtracting
- supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- tablet chair — a chair with one arm extending and expanding into a writing surface.
- teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
- terebic acid — an acid, C 7 H 10 O 4 , formed by the oxidation of certain terpenes and historically important in the discovery of the structures of many terpenes.
- the barbican — a building complex in the City of London: includes residential developments and the Barbican Arts Centre (completed 1982) housing concert and exhibition halls, theatres, cinemas, etc
- the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
- thiobacteria — bacteria found esp. in stagnant water and at the bottom of the sea, that oxidize or reduce sulfur compounds, as hydrogen sulfide
- timbromaniac — a person who is passionate about stamp-collecting
- tobacco road — a squalid and impoverished rural community.
- trabeculated — having trabeculae, transversely barred
- traceability — capable of being traced.
- trachybasalt — a fine-grained volcanic rock containing sanidine and calcic plagioclase.
- trackability — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- tractability — easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding: a tractable child; a tractable disposition.
- tree tobacco — a treelike South American plant, Nicotiana glauca, of the nightshade family, having blue-green foliage, heart-shaped leaves, and white, greenish-yellow, or purple flowers, the corolla yellow, grown as an ornamental.
- tribological — relating to tribology
- tuberculated — bearing tubercles, knobbly projections or excrescences
- tubocurarine — the principal active alkaloid of curare, C 38 H 44 Cl 2 N 2 O, used as a muscle relaxant, especially as an adjunct to anesthesia.
- turbinacious — with a peaty aroma or flavour
- turbo pascal — (language, product) Borland International's Pascal. Perhaps the first integrated development environment for MS-DOS. Versions 1.0-3.0: standard Pascal with a few extensions Versions 4.0 (1987) and 5.0: separate compilation. Version 5.5: object-oriented. Version 6.0: Turbo Vision OOP library.
- turbo-charge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.