12-letter words containing d, e, t, r
- bird-spotter — a bird-watcher
- bird-watcher — A bird-watcher is a person whose hobby is watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
- birth defect — an inherited disease or condition that a baby is born with
- bitter-ender — a person who persists in a hopeless cause; one who will not give in
- blackhearted — wicked; evil
- bleeder tile — a terra-cotta pipe for conveying water from a drainage tile to a sewer or drain.
- blitzkrieged — blitz (defs 1, 2, 5).
- blood sister — a sister by birth
- body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
- body-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each unit cell as well as at the corners
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
- boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
- booster dose — a supplementary injection of a vaccine given to maintain the immunization provided by an earlier dose
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- border state — a state adjacent to a border
- border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
- bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
- bottled beer — beer in a bottle, rather than from a barrel
- bottomfeeder — (networking) An RSS aggregator.
- 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
- bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
- bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
- breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
- 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.
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
- bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
- bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
- 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.
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
- captive-bred — bred in captivity
- carbohydrate — Carbohydrates are substances, found in certain kinds of food, that provide you with energy. Foods such as sugar and bread that contain these substances can also be referred to as carbohydrates.
- carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
- card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
- card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- cardioactive — of or relating to a drug or other substance affecting the function of the heart.
- carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
- carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
- carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
- cash-starved — A cash-starved company or organization does not have enough money to operate properly, usually because another organization, such as the government, is not giving them the money that they need.
- cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers