12-letter words containing s, c, a, r
- black sucker — a hog sucker, Hypentelium nigricans, of eastern U.S. streams.
- bliss carman — (William) Bliss, 1861–1929, Canadian poet and journalist in the U.S.
- 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
- board school — (formerly) a school managed by a board elected by local ratepayers
- 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
- 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
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
- brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
- braggadocios — empty boasting; bragging.
- brass-collar — unwaveringly faithful to a political party; voting the straight ticket: a brass-collar Democrat.
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- broca's area — the region of the cerebral cortex of the brain concerned with speech; the speech centre
- bronchospasm — an abnormal contraction of the bronchi resulting in restriction of the airway
- buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
- buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- 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
- 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.
- cabbage rose — a rose, Rosa centifolia, with a round compact full-petalled head
- cabora bassa — the site on the Zambezi River in N Mozambique of the largest dam in southern Africa
- cabot strait — a channel in Canada, connecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the Atlantic Ocean. 68 miles (109 km) wide.
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- 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.
- calabrasella — a card game for three persons that is played with a 40-card pack made by removing the eights, nines, and tens from a regular 52-card pack.
- calcareously — in a calcareous manner
- 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.
- calorescence — the absorption of radiation by a body, subsequently re-emitted at a higher frequency (lower wavelength)
- calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
- camel's hair — the hair of the camel
- camel's-hair — made of camel's hair.
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- 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.
- cameraperson — a camera operator
- camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
- camp springs — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- can of worms — a complicated problem
- canary grass — any of various grasses of the genus Phalaris, esp P. canariensis, that is native to Europe and N Africa and has straw-coloured seeds used as birdseed
- cancer stick — a cigarette.
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- canine corps — a military or law enforcement body which uses dogs for the detection of explosives or drugs or for security, tracking, etc
- cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
- canorousness — The quality of being musical.