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12-letter words containing e, a, r, t

  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • brilliantine — a perfumed oil used to make the hair smooth and shiny
  • brittle star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, having the body composed of a central, rounded disk from which radiate long, slender, fragile arms.
  • brittle-star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, occurring on the sea bottom and having five long slender arms radiating from a small central disc
  • broken heart — If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
  • broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
  • bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
  • bromomethane — methyl bromide.
  • buck private — a common soldier
  • buenaventura — a major port in W Colombia, on the Pacific coast. Pop: 250 000 (2005 est)
  • buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
  • bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
  • bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
  • bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
  • butter paper — a semi-transparent, waterproof paper used for wrapping butter, etc
  • butter sauce — a sauce made of melted butter, often diluted with water, sometimes thickened with flour or egg yolk, or both, and seasoned with lemon juice.
  • buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
  • c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
  • cabbage tree — a tree, Cordyline australis, of New Zealand having a tall branchless trunk and a palmlike top
  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cacao butter — cocoa butter
  • cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
  • 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.
  • cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
  • 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.
  • call letters — Call letters are the letters and numbers which identify a person, vehicle, or organization that is broadcasting on the radio or sending messages by radio.
  • caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
  • calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • cameralistic — of or relating to public finance.
  • camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
  • camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
  • cancer stick — a cigarette.
  • candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
  • cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
  • canton crepe — a fine crinkled silk or rayon crepe fabric, slightly heavier than crepe de Chine
  • canton river — Zhu Jiang.
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
  • captive-bred — bred in captivity
  • caravan site — A caravan site is an area of land where people can stay in a caravan on holiday, or where people live in caravans.
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