12-letter words containing h, a, t, r
- bletherskate — a blatherer
- 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.
- boar-hunting — the practice of hunting wild boars
- board shorts — shorts with longer legs, originally meant to protect a surfer's legs against the surfboard
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- branch plant — a plant or factory in Canada belonging to a company whose headquarters are in another country
- branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
- branch water — water from a stream, as opposed to mineral or soda water
- breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
- breakweather — any makeshift shelter.
- 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
- 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.
- brigham city — a city in N Utah.
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
- british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
- 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.
- bromomethane — methyl bromide.
- brushability — the quality of being brushable
- burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
- buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- cachinnatory — Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
- cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
- camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
- camphorating — Present participle of camphorate.
- cantharidian — cantharidal
- car-crash tv — television programmes that show deliberately controversial, disturbing, or horrific material
- carbohydrate — Carbohydrates are substances, found in certain kinds of food, that provide you with energy. Foods such as sugar and bread that contain these substances can also be referred to as carbohydrates.
- cardan shaft — A cardan shaft or cardan drive is a propeller shaft fitted with universal joints at each end.
- carpet shark — any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
- carriwitchet — a conundrum, nonsensical question, or pun
- carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
- carthaginian — of or relating to Carthage or its inhabitants
- cartographer — A cartographer is a person whose job is drawing maps.
- cartographic — Of or pertaining to the making of maps.
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
- case history — A person's case history is the record of past events or problems that have affected them, especially their medical history.
- cash receipt — A cash receipt is a proof of purchase issued when the buyer has paid in cash.
- cash-starved — A cash-starved company or organization does not have enough money to operate properly, usually because another organization, such as the government, is not giving them the money that they need.
- catachrestic — Constituting or related to catachresis.
- cataphoreses — Plural form of cataphoresis.
- cataphoresis — electrophoresis