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12-letter words containing c, r, a

  • bearded clam — mollusc eaten as seafood
  • beaten track — well-trodden path or route
  • beaumarchais — Pierre Augustin Caron de (pjɛr oɡystɛ̃ karɔ̃ də). 1732–99, French dramatist, noted for his comedies The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro (1784)
  • beauty cream — a cosmetic cream
  • beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
  • beech marten — stone marten.
  • beef extract — a soluble paste of beef or beef blood extracts.
  • beggar-ticks — any of various plants, such as the bur marigold and tick trefoil, having fruits or seeds that cling to clothing, fur, etc
  • belly dancer — A belly dancer is a woman who performs a Middle Eastern dance in which she moves her hips and abdomen about.
  • bench-warmer — a substitute who rarely gets to play in a game.
  • benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
  • benefactress — a female benefactor
  • beta blocker — A beta blocker is a drug which is used to treat people who have high blood pressure or heart problems.
  • beta-blocker — any of various substances that interfere with the action of the beta receptors: used primarily to reduce the heart rate or force in the prevention, management, or treatment of angina, hypertension, or arrythmias.
  • betacarotene — the most important form of the plant pigment carotene, which occurs in milk, vegetables, and other foods and, when eaten by man and animals, is converted in the body to vitamin A
  • beurre blanc — an emulsion of cold butter in a white wine or vinegar and shallot reduction
  • beyond reach — inaccessible
  • biarticulate — having two joints, as the antennae of certain insects.
  • biauriculate — having two auricles or earlike parts
  • bicameralism — having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
  • bicarpellary — (of an ovary) having two carpels
  • bicollateral — (of a vascular bundle) having two phloem groups to the inside and outside, respectively, of the xylem
  • bicycle race — cycling (def 2).
  • bicycle rack — a metal frame for securing bicycles when they are not in use
  • biker jacket — a short, close-fitting leather jacket with zips and studs, often worn by motorcyclists
  • billiard cue — a long cue used for playing billiards
  • binary color — secondary color.
  • bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
  • binocularity — binocular characteristics
  • biographical — Biographical facts, notes, or details are concerned with the events in someone's life.
  • bioinorganic — pertaining to the biological activity of metal complexes and nonmetal compounds based on elements other than carbon (contrasted with bioorganic).
  • biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
  • biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
  • birch family — the plant family Betulaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves, male flowers in drooping catkins, female flowers in short clusters, and one-seeded nuts, and including the alder, birch, hazel, and hornbeam.
  • bird fancier — a person who keeps, breeds, or sells birds
  • bird watcher — a person who identifies and observes birds in their natural habitat as a recreation.
  • bird-watcher — A bird-watcher is a person whose hobby is watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
  • biscay green — a yellowish green.
  • biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
  • bismarck sea — an arm of the Pacific Ocean north of New Britain and north-east of New Guinea
  • black africa — Black Africa is the part of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert.
  • black bryony — a climbing herbaceous Eurasian plant, Tamus communis, having small greenish flowers and poisonous red berries: family Dioscoreaceae
  • black butter — beurre noir.
  • black cherry — a tree of the species Prunus serotina, having a small fleshy rounded edible fruit containing a hard stone
  • black copper — a regulus of 95-percent-pure copper, produced in a blast furnace by smelting oxidized copper ores.
  • black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
  • black friday — the day after the US Thanksgiving Day in late November, regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season
  • black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
  • black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
  • black letter — a kind of heavy-faced, ornamental printing type
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