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12-letter words containing d, a, c, r

  • bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
  • board school — (formerly) a school managed by a board elected by local ratepayers
  • body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • braced frame — a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices.
  • bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
  • braggadocios — empty boasting; bragging.
  • branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
  • brazen-faced — shameless or impudent
  • breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
  • breaker card — the first card in the carding process, used to open the raw stock and to convert it into sliver form.
  • breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
  • 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 chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
  • broad church — You can refer to an organization, group, or area of activity as a broad church when it includes a wide range of opinions, beliefs, or styles.
  • broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
  • butyric acid — type of acid
  • cackermander — a friend
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
  • caesar salad — Caesar salad is a type of salad containing lettuce, eggs, cheese, and small pieces of fried bread, served with a dressing of oil, vinegar, and herbs.
  • 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 api — Calendar Application Programming Interface
  • calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
  • calendar day — the period from one midnight to the following midnight.
  • calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
  • calling card — A calling card is a small card with personal information about you on it, such as your name and address, which you can give to people when you go to visit them.
  • camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • camera ready — (publication)   A final edition of a document or graphic (e.g. a newspaper advertisement or a technical paper for a journal) that is of suitable quality for mass reproduction by making printing plates from the negatives by photoengraving.
  • camera-ready — designating or of copy, artwork, etc. that is ready to be photographed for making into a plate for printing
  • campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
  • campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
  • candleholder — a candlestick
  • candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
  • candygrammar — (language)   A programming-language grammar that is mostly syntactic sugar; a play on "candygram". COBOL, Apple Computer's Hypertalk language, and many 4GLs share this property. The intent is to be as English-like as possible and thus easier for unskilled people to program. However, syntax isn't what makes programming hard; it's the mental effort and organisation required to specify an algorithm precisely. Thus "candygrammar" languages are just as difficult to program in, and far more painful for the experienced hacker.
  • cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
  • cantharidian — cantharidal
  • cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
  • cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • cape verdean — of or relating to Cape Verde or its inhabitants
  • cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
  • capraldehyde — (chemistry) decanal.
  • caproic acid — oily acid found in milk
  • captive-bred — bred in captivity
  • car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
  • caraway seed — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of this plant, used in cooking and in medicine
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