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12-letter words containing s, t, o, r

  • boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
  • boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
  • bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
  • bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
  • boom-or-bust — boom-and-bust.
  • boomer state — Oklahoma
  • booster dose — a supplementary injection of a vaccine given to maintain the immunization provided by an earlier dose
  • booster pump — A booster pump is a pump which is used where pressure is low and needs to be increased.
  • 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.
  • booster shot — an injection of a vaccine or other antigen some time after the initial series of injections, for maintaining immunity
  • 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
  • borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
  • bossier city — city in NW La., on the Red River opposite Shreveport: pop. 56,000
  • botrytis rot — a disease of many plants caused by fungi of the genus Botrytis, characterized by leaf blight, a tan-gray moldlike surface growth, and the rotting of stems and storage organs.
  • bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
  • bovver boots — heavy boots worn by some teenage youths in Britain, used in gang fights
  • bow thruster — a propeller located in a ship's bow to provide added maneuverability, as when docking.
  • boxer shorts — Boxer shorts are loose-fitting men's underpants that are shaped like the shorts worn by boxers.
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • 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.
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
  • broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
  • 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)
  • buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
  • bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
  • burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
  • by the score — If things happen or exist by the score, they happen or exist in large numbers.
  • bypass ratio — the ratio of the amount of air that bypasses the combustion chambers of an aircraft gas turbine to that passing through them
  • cabot strait — a channel in Canada, connecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the Atlantic Ocean. 68 miles (109 km) wide.
  • calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
  • call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • carbocations — Plural form of carbocation.
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
  • cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
  • carol stream — a town in NE Illinois.
  • cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
  • case history — A person's case history is the record of past events or problems that have affected them, especially their medical history.
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