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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
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