12-letter words containing r, u, b, e, c
- buck private — a common soldier
- bucket truck — a truck with an attached aerial lift or movable boom.
- 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.
- buckler fern — any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris, such as D. dilatata (broad buckler fern): family Polypodiaceae
- buffer force — a force separating two opposing sides
- buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
- bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
- 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
- bur cucumber — a climbing vine, Sicyos angulatus, of the gourd family, of eastern and midwestern North America, having leaves with pointed lobes, small white or greenish flowers, and clusters of prickly fruits.
- bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
- burseraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Burseraceae, a tropical family of trees and shrubs having compound leaves and resin or balsam in their stems. The family includes bdellium and some balsams
- butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
- butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
- butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
- butter sauce — a sauce made of melted butter, often diluted with water, sometimes thickened with flour or egg yolk, or both, and seasoned with lemon juice.
- butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- cacao butter — cocoa butter
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- carbamylurea — biuret.
- carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
- carbonaceous — of, resembling, or containing carbon
- carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
- carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
- chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- chapeau bras — a small three-cornered hat, worn by gentlemen in full dress in the 18th century, that could be folded flat and carried under the arm.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
- cheeseburger — A cheeseburger is a flat round piece of cooked meat called a burger with a slice of cheese on top, served in a bread roll.
- chequerboard — Alternative spelling of checkerboard.
- cherubically — In a cherubic way.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
- chinese burn — a minor torture inflicted by twisting the skin of a person's wrist or arm in two different directions simultaneously
- circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
- circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
- circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
- clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
- cloud banner — banner cloud.
- cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
- club culture — the practice of protecting the reputation of one's workforce in the face of criticism, above all other considerations
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- cluster bomb — A cluster bomb is a type of bomb which is dropped from an aircraft. It contains a large number of smaller bombs that spread out before they hit the ground.
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- cocoa butter — a yellowish-white waxy solid that is obtained from cocoa beans and used for confectionery, soap, etc
- computer bus — bus
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- contributers — Misspelling of contributors.
- contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- corbel vault — a structure having the form of a vault but constructed on the principle of a corbel arch.