12-letter words containing e, c, r, u
- bucket truck — a truck with an attached aerial lift or movable boom.
- buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
- buckler fern — any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris, such as D. dilatata (broad buckler fern): family Polypodiaceae
- buffer force — a force separating two opposing sides
- buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
- bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- bur cucumber — a climbing vine, Sicyos angulatus, of the gourd family, of eastern and midwestern North America, having leaves with pointed lobes, small white or greenish flowers, and clusters of prickly fruits.
- bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
- burseraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Burseraceae, a tropical family of trees and shrubs having compound leaves and resin or balsam in their stems. The family includes bdellium and some balsams
- butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
- butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
- butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
- 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.
- butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- cacao butter — cocoa butter
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- 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.
- calcareously — in a calcareous manner
- caliper rule — a graduated rule with one sliding jaw and one that is stationary
- calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
- canorousness — The quality of being musical.
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- caper spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, producing latex that is considered a possible source of crude oil and gasoline.
- capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
- carbamylurea — biuret.
- carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
- carbonaceous — of, resembling, or containing carbon
- 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.
- carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
- carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
- carry a tune — to be able to sing in tune
- carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
- carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
- caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
- cat squirrel — the gray squirrel, as distinguished from the fox squirrel.
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- cattle guard — A cattle guard is the same as a cattle grid.
- cattle truck — a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock
- cattleduffer — a cattle thief.
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- cedrelaceous — resembling or having the characteristics of a citron fruit
- cell culture — the growing of cells in a laboratory under controlled conditions
- censoriously — In a censorious manner.
- census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.