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12-letter words containing s, a, b, t, r

  • bioastronomy — the branch of biology which deals with the study or the discovery of life forms on other planets or in space
  • biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
  • bitter aloes — a bitter purgative drug made from the leaves of several species of aloe
  • bitter lakes — two lakes, the Great Bitter Lake and Little Bitter Lake in NE Egypt: part of the Suez Canal
  • black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
  • black scoter — a scoter of Eurasia and North America, Melanitta nigra, the adult male of which is black.
  • black stream — a warm ocean current in the Pacific, flowing N along the E coast of Taiwan, NE along the E coast of Japan, and continuing in an easterly direction into the open Pacific.
  • blastosphere — blastula
  • blatherskite — a talkative silly person
  • blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
  • bletherskate — a blatherer
  • blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • board shorts — shorts with longer legs, originally meant to protect a surfer's legs against the surfboard
  • bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
  • bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
  • boomer state — Oklahoma
  • booster seat — A booster seat or a booster cushion is a special seat which allows a small child to sit in a higher position, for example at a table or in a car.
  • boot-scraper — a contraption consisting of an upright metal shape formerly placed outside some houses to enable people to scrape the mud from their boots before going in
  • border state — a state adjacent to a border
  • border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
  • brain teaser — A brain teaser is a question, problem, or puzzle that is difficult to answer or solve, but is not serious or important.
  • brain-teaser — a puzzle or problem whose solution requires great ingenuity.
  • brains trust — a group of knowledgeable people who discuss topics in public or on radio or television
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • brake assist — a part of a vehicle's braking system that automatically boosts braking pressure in an emergency situation
  • bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
  • bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
  • breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
  • breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breaststroke — Breaststroke is a swimming stroke which you do lying on your front, moving your arms and legs horizontally in a circular motion.
  • breastsummer — a girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts
  • breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
  • breathe easy — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
  • breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
  • british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
  • british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
  • 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
  • broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
  • brontosaurus — any very large herbivorous quadrupedal dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus, common in North America during Jurassic times, having a long neck and long tail: suborder Sauropoda (sauropods)
  • brushability — the quality of being brushable
  • buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
  • buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
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