12-letter words containing r, a, t, l
- 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.
- breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
- bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
- brilliantine — a perfumed oil used to make the hair smooth and shiny
- british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
- 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
- brushability — the quality of being brushable
- bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
- bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- 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.
- calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- call letters — Call letters are the letters and numbers which identify a person, vehicle, or organization that is broadcasting on the radio or sending messages by radio.
- call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
- caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
- 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.
- caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
- cameralistic — of or relating to public finance.
- cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
- cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
- cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
- capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
- capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
- carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
- carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
- card catalog — a file of cards of uniform size arranged in some definite order and listing the items in the collection of a library or group of libraries, each card typically identifying a single item.
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
- carnot cycle — an idealized reversible heat-engine cycle giving maximum efficiency and consisting of an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal compression, and an adiabatic compression back to the initial state
- carol stream — a town in NE Illinois.
- carpet tiles — small pieces of carpeting laid as tiles to cover a floor
- cartological — relating to cartology
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
- carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
- carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
- caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
- cat squirrel — the gray squirrel, as distinguished from the fox squirrel.
- cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers
- cataphyllary — a scale-like, simple form of a leaf, such as those which surround a bud