12-letter words containing s, t, a, u, r, e
- blues guitar — blues guitar music
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breastsummer — a girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
- burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
- 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.
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
- caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
- cat squirrel — the gray squirrel, as distinguished from the fox squirrel.
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
- census tract — a standard area in certain large American cities used by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for purposes of population enumeration.
- chaetiferous — having bristles
- chapterhouse — the building attached to a cathedral, collegiate church, or religious house in which the chapter meets
- charcuteries — Plural form of charcuterie.
- chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
- charterhouse — a Carthusian monastery
- chartularies — Plural form of chartulary.
- chorusmaster — the conductor of a choir
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- cluster area — a place where a concentration of a particular phenomenon is found
- cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
- commensurate — If the level of one thing is commensurate with another, the first level is in proportion to the second.
- contractures — Plural form of contracture.
- contrasexual — (of a woman) appearing to defy the female sexual stereotype by being content to be single and childless while being sexually active and financially independent
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- counterpanes — Plural form of counterpane.
- counterparts — a person or thing closely resembling another, especially in function: Our president is the counterpart of your prime minister.
- counterpleas — Plural form of counterplea.
- counterscarp — the outer side of the ditch of a fort
- countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
- counterstain — to apply two or more stains in sequence to (a specimen to be examined), each of which colours a different tissue
- counterstamp — a stamp added to a stamped paper or document as a qualifying mark.
- counterstate — across state; traversing the state
- countervails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countervail.
- country seat — A country seat is a large house with land in the country which is owned by someone who also owns a house in a town.
- courtesy car — a car that is lent to c customer by a garage or insurance company
- crassamentum — a blood clot
- crematoriums — Plural form of crematorium.
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- curate's egg — something that has both good and bad parts
- curtail step — the step or steps at the foot of a flight of stairs, widened at one or both ends and terminated with a scroll
- curtail-step — a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- curvicostate — having curved ribs
- daisy cutter — a powerful shot that moves close to the ground