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12-letter words containing r, e, d, c

  • bactericides — Plural form of bactericide.
  • bacteriocide — Alternative form of bactericide.
  • bald cypress — a tree, Taxodium distichum, of swampy areas of the southern U.S., having featherlike needles and cone-shaped projections growing up from the roots, yielding a hardwood used in construction, shipbuilding, etc.
  • bandersnatch — a fictional creature created by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, and appearing also in The Hunting of the Snark and Through the Looking-Glass
  • banner cloud — a plume-shaped cloud extending downwind from an isolated mountain peak. Also called cloud banner. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
  • battery acid — acid used in batteries, esp car batteries
  • bearded clam — mollusc eaten as seafood
  • beche-de-mer — trepang
  • bedford cord — a heavy corded cloth, similar to corduroy
  • belly dancer — A belly dancer is a woman who performs a Middle Eastern dance in which she moves her hips and abdomen about.
  • beyond price — invaluable or priceless
  • beyond reach — inaccessible
  • billiard cue — a long cue used for playing billiards
  • bird colonel — a full colonel in the US Army
  • bird fancier — a person who keeps, breeds, or sells birds
  • bird watcher — a person who identifies and observes birds in their natural habitat as a recreation.
  • bird-watcher — A bird-watcher is a person whose hobby is watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
  • birth defect — an inherited disease or condition that a baby is born with
  • black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
  • blackhearted — wicked; evil
  • bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
  • blind corner — a corner where the view of the road ahead is completely obscured or very restricted
  • bloodcurdler — something causing great fright or horror: a bloodcurdler of a mystery novel.
  • body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
  • body-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each unit cell as well as at the corners
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • braced frame — a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices.
  • bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
  • branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
  • brazen-faced — shameless or impudent
  • breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
  • breaker card — the first card in the carding process, used to open the raw stock and to convert it into sliver form.
  • breckinridge — John Cabell1821-75; vice president of the U.S. (1857-61); Confederate general
  • breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
  • breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
  • brevicaudate — having a short tail.
  • brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
  • bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • broken chord — a chord played as an arpeggio
  • buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
  • cackermander — a friend
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
  • caesar salad — Caesar salad is a type of salad containing lettuce, eggs, cheese, and small pieces of fried bread, served with a dressing of oil, vinegar, and herbs.
  • caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
  • calendar api — Calendar Application Programming Interface
  • calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
  • calendar day — the period from one midnight to the following midnight.
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