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12-letter words containing e, g, c, r

  • bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
  • biscay green — a yellowish green.
  • black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
  • black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • braunschweig — Brunswick
  • breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
  • breckinridge — John Cabell1821-75; vice president of the U.S. (1857-61); Confederate general
  • bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bronchogenic — bronchial in origin
  • buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
  • 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
  • butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
  • cabbage rose — a rose, Rosa centifolia, with a round compact full-petalled head
  • cabbage tree — a tree, Cordyline australis, of New Zealand having a tall branchless trunk and a palmlike top
  • cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
  • cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
  • calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
  • calligrapher — A calligrapher is a person skilled in the art of calligraphy.
  • 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)
  • canyoneering — (US) Canyoning, a hybrid outdoor sport involving the traversal of river canyons.
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • caper spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, producing latex that is considered a possible source of crude oil and gasoline.
  • caramelizing — Present participle of caramelize.
  • carcinogenic — A substance that is carcinogenic is likely to cause cancer.
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
  • care package — Also, CARE package. a package containing food, clothing, or other items sent as necessities to the needy.
  • cargo pocket — a large patch pocket, usually pleated at the sides and often having a flap.
  • carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
  • carpet grass — either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.
  • carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
  • carpetbagger — If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.
  • carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
  • carriage dog — Dalmatian (sense 4)
  • carriageable — (of a road, etc) able to be travelled in a carriage
  • carriageways — Plural form of carriageway.
  • carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
  • cartographer — A cartographer is a person whose job is drawing maps.
  • cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
  • case grammar — a system of grammatical description based on the functional relations that noun groups have to the main verb of a sentence
  • caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
  • caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
  • categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
  • categoricity — The quality of being categorical.
  • categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • categorizing — Present participle of categorize.
  • caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
  • cattle egret — a small, white egret (Bubulcus ibis), an Old World bird that has expanded its range to North and South America: it often feeds on insects attracted to cattle and other grazing animals
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