12-letter words containing e, s, a
- bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
- 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 glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
- bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
- box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
- brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
- bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
- bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of 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
- brass plaque — a brass plate screwed to a wall or other structure and engraved with a name or other information, esp to commemorate an important event
- brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- 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.
- 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
- breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of 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.
- brenner pass — a pass over the E Alps, between Austria and Italy. Highest point: 1372 m (4501 ft)
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- brisbane box — a broad-leaved evergreen tree, Tristania conferta, native to Australia, having a deciduous outer bark.
- 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
- broca's area — the region of the cerebral cortex of the brain concerned with speech; the speech centre
- brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
- buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
- buenos aires — the capital of Argentina, a major port and industrial city on the Río de la Plata estuary: became capital in 1880; university (1821). Pop: 13 349 000 (2005 est)
- buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
- buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
- burmese jade — jadeite of the finest quality: a true jade.
- burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
- 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
- bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.