12-letter words containing i, a, t, r
- 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.
- brilliantine — a perfumed oil used to make the hair smooth and shiny
- bring action — to start a lawsuit
- bring to bay — to force into a position from which retreat is impossible
- 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
- 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
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- brown bag it — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brushability — the quality of being brushable
- buck private — a common soldier
- bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- bunny rabbit — rabbit
- bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
- burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
- burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
- burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
- butyric acid — type of acid
- bypass ratio — the ratio of the amount of air that bypasses the combustion chambers of an aircraft gas turbine to that passing through them
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cabot strait — a channel in Canada, connecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the Atlantic Ocean. 68 miles (109 km) wide.
- cachinnatory — Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
- 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
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
- calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
- calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- cameralistic — of or relating to public finance.
- camphorating — Present participle of camphorate.
- cancer stick — a cigarette.
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- cantabrigian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Cambridge or Cambridge University, or of Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Harvard University
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- cantharidian — cantharidal
- cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
- cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
- canting arms — a coat of arms making visual reference to the surname of its owner
- canton river — Zhu Jiang.
- capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
- capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
- captive-bred — bred in captivity
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- 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.
- carbocations — Plural form of carbocation.