12-letter words containing c, i, a
- branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
- breuer chair — a chair with a frame of continuous chrome tubing, no back legs, and cane seat and back
- brevicaudate — having a short tail.
- bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
- brigham city — a city in N Utah.
- bring action — to start a lawsuit
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
- buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
- buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
- buck private — a common soldier
- bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- buoyancy aid — a type of usually foam-filled lifejacket designed for use in sports such as canoeing
- bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- butyric acid — type of acid
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- c'est la vie — that's life
- cabalistical — cabalistic
- cabinet wine — cabinet (def 10).
- cabinet-wine — a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding or displaying items: a curio cabinet; a file cabinet.
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
- cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
- cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- cabot strait — a channel in Canada, connecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the Atlantic Ocean. 68 miles (109 km) wide.
- cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- cachinnating — Present participle of cachinnate.
- cachinnation — raucous laughter
- cachinnatory — Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
- cacodaemonic — Daemonic.
- cacophonical — cacophonous
- cacophonious — cacophonous
- cactoblastis — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum of South America, that was introduced into Australia to act as a biological control on the prickly pear
- cadmium cell — a photocell with a cadmium electrode that is especially sensitive to ultraviolet radiation
- caenogenesis — the development of structures and organs in an embryo or larva that are adaptations to its way of life and are not retained in the adult form
- caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
- cafe au lait — coffee with milk
- 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.
- cafe society — people, esp intellectuals and artists who meet in cafés
- cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
- calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
- calculations — Plural form of calculation.
- calendar api — Calendar Application Programming Interface
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.