12-letter words containing e, a, r, t
- blackhearted — wicked; evil
- blanket roll — a blanket or sleeping bag rolled into a cylindrical pack for easy carrying and outdoor use by hikers, soldiers, cowboys, etc., often with cooking utensils, food, and personal articles carried inside.
- blastosphere — blastula
- blatherskite — a talkative silly person
- blaue reiter — der Blaue Reiter. a group of German expressionist painters formed in Munich in 1911, including Kandinsky and Klee, who sought to express the spiritual side of man and nature, which they felt had been neglected by impressionism
- bletheration — nonsense!
- bletherskate — a blatherer
- blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
- block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
- blues guitar — blues guitar music
- 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.
- boomer state — Oklahoma
- booster seat — A booster seat or a booster cushion is a special seat which allows a small child to sit in a higher position, for example at a table or in a car.
- boot-scraper — a contraption consisting of an upright metal shape formerly placed outside some houses to enable people to scrape the mud from their boots before going in
- border state — a state adjacent to a border
- border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- bottom break — a branch coming from the bottom of a plant stem, usually formed by pinching and disbudding.
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- 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.
- brain teaser — A brain teaser is a question, problem, or puzzle that is difficult to answer or solve, but is not serious or important.
- brain-teaser — a puzzle or problem whose solution requires great ingenuity.
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- brake assist — a part of a vehicle's braking system that automatically boosts braking pressure in an emergency situation
- 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
- brazilianite — a mineral, sodium aluminum phosphate, Na 2 Al 6 P 4 O 16 (OH) 8 , occurring in yellow-green crystals with a vitreous luster: used as a gem.
- 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.
- breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
- breakweather — any makeshift shelter.
- breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
- breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breaststroke — Breaststroke is a swimming stroke which you do lying on your front, moving your arms and legs horizontally in a circular motion.
- breastsummer — a girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts
- breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
- breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
- breathalyzer — A Breathalyzer is a bag or electronic device that the police use to test whether a driver has drunk too much alcohol.
- breathe easy — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
- breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
- breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
- 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.
- brevipennate — (of flightless birds) short-winged