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12-letter words containing r, e, g, t

  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
  • cabbage tree — a tree, Cordyline australis, of New Zealand having a tall branchless trunk and a palmlike top
  • cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • cargo pocket — a large patch pocket, usually pleated at the sides and often having a flap.
  • carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
  • carpet grass — either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.
  • carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
  • carpetbagger — If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.
  • carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
  • carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
  • cartographer — A cartographer is a person whose job is drawing maps.
  • cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
  • caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
  • caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
  • categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
  • categoricity — The quality of being categorical.
  • categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • categorizing — Present participle of categorize.
  • caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
  • cattle egret — a small, white egret (Bubulcus ibis), an Old World bird that has expanded its range to North and South America: it often feeds on insects attracted to cattle and other grazing animals
  • cattle guard — A cattle guard is the same as a cattle grid.
  • center stage — If something or someone takes center stage, they become very important or noticeable.
  • centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
  • centralising — Present participle of centralise.
  • centralizing — Present participle of centralize.
  • centre stage — If something or someone takes centre stage, they become very important or noticeable.
  • centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
  • centrifuging — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
  • change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
  • chapter ring — a ringlike band on the dial of a clock that bears the numerals or other symbols of the hours.
  • charge plate — an identification plate, especially one from which an impression can be taken, issued to a customer and used to make purchases on a credit basis.
  • charge sheet — a document on which a police officer enters details of the charge against a prisoner and the court in which he will appear
  • chew the rag — to converse idly; chat
  • chitterlings — the intestines of a pig or other animal prepared as a dish
  • choreologist — a person who is expert in choreology
  • christenings — Plural form of christening.
  • chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
  • circumgyrate — to cause (something) to move in a circular motion
  • citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
  • city manager — (in the US) an administrator hired by a municipal council to manage its affairs
  • clatteringly — With a clattering sound.
  • clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
  • clearsighted — seeing clearly
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