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12-letter words containing t, c

  • 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.
  • black tongue — canine pellagra.
  • black velvet — a mixture of stout and champagne in equal proportions
  • black walnut — a North American walnut tree, Juglans nigra, with hard dark wood and edible oily nuts
  • black wattle — a small Australian acacia tree, A. mearnsii, with yellow flowers
  • black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
  • black-market — to black-marketeer.
  • blackcurrant — In Europe, blackcurrants are a type of very small, dark purple fruits that grow in bunches on bushes.
  • blackhearted — wicked; evil
  • blast effect — the damage caused by the force of an explosive blast
  • blastocoelic — of or relating to the blastocoel
  • blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
  • blind stitch — a type of stitch that is visible on one side of the material only
  • 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
  • block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
  • block letter — a plain capital letter
  • block system — the system whereby a railway is divided up into separate sections of track where only one train can travel at a time
  • block voting — voting using block votes
  • blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • body politic — The body politic is all the people of a nation when they are considered as a complete political group.
  • body-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each unit cell as well as at the corners
  • boletic acid — fumaric acid.
  • bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
  • bomb factory — a site or building in which terrorists illicitly and secretly create bombs
  • booch method — (programming)   A widely used object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design method.
  • book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
  • book society — book club.
  • 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
  • bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
  • 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
  • botticellian — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
  • box junction — (in Britain) a road junction having yellow cross-hatching painted on the road surface. Vehicles may only enter the hatched area when their exit is clear
  • boxing match — a competition between two boxers
  • bracket foot — a corner foot of a chest or the like joining the sides in a concave line.
  • bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
  • bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
  • branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
  • branch plant — a plant or factory in Canada belonging to a company whose headquarters are in another country
  • branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
  • branch water — water from a stream, as opposed to mineral or soda water
  • breech birth — birth of a baby with the feet or buttocks appearing first
  • breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
  • brevicaudate — having a short tail.
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