12-letter words containing c, e, t, r
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
- bossier city — city in NW La., on the Red River opposite Shreveport: pop. 56,000
- bracket foot — a corner foot of a chest or the like joining the sides in a concave line.
- bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- branch water — water from a stream, as opposed to mineral or soda water
- breech birth — birth of a baby with the feet or buttocks appearing first
- 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.
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
- broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
- buck private — a common soldier
- bucket truck — a truck with an attached aerial lift or movable boom.
- buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
- bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
- butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
- butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
- butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
- 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 my certie — assuredly
- by the score — If things happen or exist by the score, they happen or exist in large numbers.
- 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.
- cacao butter — cocoa butter
- cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
- cafe curtain — a short curtain suspended directly downward from a series of rings sliding on a horizontal rod so as to cover the lower and sometimes upper portions of a window.
- cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
- 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.
- calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
- call letters — Call letters are the letters and numbers which identify a person, vehicle, or organization that is broadcasting on the radio or sending messages by radio.
- caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
- calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
- calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
- calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
- caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
- cameralistic — of or relating to public finance.
- camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
- camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
- cancer stick — a cigarette.
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
- canton crepe — a fine crinkled silk or rayon crepe fabric, slightly heavier than crepe de Chine
- canton river — Zhu Jiang.