12-letter words containing i, b, e, a
- buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
- buck private — a common soldier
- 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)
- bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
- bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
- 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
- bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
- burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- cabinet wine — cabinet (def 10).
- cabinet-wine — a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding or displaying items: a curio cabinet; a file cabinet.
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
- cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
- cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- 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
- camber piece — a centering for a flat arch, slightly crowned to allow for settling of the arch.
- cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
- cannibalised — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalise.
- cannibalized — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalize.
- cannibalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cannibalize.
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
- captive-bred — bred in captivity
- carbocholine — carbachol.
- carbon fiber — a very strong, lightweight synthetic fiber used in protective clothing, spacecraft components, racing shells, etc.
- carbon fibre — a black silky thread of pure carbon made by heating and stretching textile fibres and used because of its lightness and strength at high temperatures for reinforcing resins, ceramics, and metals, esp in turbine blades and for fishing rods
- carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
- carriageable — (of a road, etc) able to be travelled in a carriage
- carrick bend — type of knot
- carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
- catbird seat — an enviable position, as of power
- cebocephalic — Exhibiting or relating to cebocephaly.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- celebreality — a television genre that is unscripted and involves either the day-to-day documentation of a celebrity’s life or competitive challenges that a celebrity or celebrities must perform
- celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
- cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
- cerebrotonia — a personality type characterized by restraint, alertness, and an intellectual approach to life: said to be correlated with an ectomorph body type
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
- chenin blanc — a white grape grown in the Loire region of France and in South Africa, California, New Zealand, and elsewhere, used for making wine
- cherubically — In a cherubic way.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chinaberries — Plural form of chinaberry.