12-letter words containing t, e, a, c
- batter brace — a diagonal brace reinforcing one end of a truss.
- battery acid — acid used in batteries, esp car batteries
- batting cage — a screen with three sides and a top, in which batters practice: it keeps missed and fouled pitches within its enclosure
- battle clasp — clasp (def 4).
- battle creek — a city in S Michigan.
- beacon light — a light signal for shipping
- bean counter — You can describe people such as accountants and business managers as bean counters if you disapprove of them because you think they are only interested in money.
- beaten track — well-trodden path or route
- beatifically — bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like: beatific peace.
- beauty cream — a cosmetic cream
- beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
- beech marten — stone marten.
- beef extract — a soluble paste of beef or beef blood extracts.
- beggar-ticks — any of various plants, such as the bur marigold and tick trefoil, having fruits or seeds that cling to clothing, fur, etc
- bell captain — a person in charge of a group of bellhops
- bell the cat — to undertake a very dangerous mission
- benefactress — a female benefactor
- beneficiated — to treat (ore) to make more suitable for smelting.
- bespectacled — Someone who is bespectacled is wearing glasses.
- beta blocker — A beta blocker is a drug which is used to treat people who have high blood pressure or heart problems.
- beta-blocker — any of various substances that interfere with the action of the beta receptors: used primarily to reduce the heart rate or force in the prevention, management, or treatment of angina, hypertension, or arrythmias.
- betacarotene — the most important form of the plant pigment carotene, which occurs in milk, vegetables, and other foods and, when eaten by man and animals, is converted in the body to vitamin A
- biarticulate — having two joints, as the antennae of certain insects.
- biauriculate — having two auricles or earlike parts
- bibliothecal — relating to a bibliotheca
- bicentennial — A bicentennial is the same as a bicentenary.
- bicollateral — (of a vascular bundle) having two phloem groups to the inside and outside, respectively, of the xylem
- bicycle path — a path designed for bicyclists
- bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
- biker jacket — a short, close-fitting leather jacket with zips and studs, often worn by motorcyclists
- biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
- biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
- biotechnical — relating to biotechnology
- bird watcher — a person who identifies and observes birds in their natural habitat as a recreation.
- bird-watcher — A bird-watcher is a person whose hobby is watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
- biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
- black beauty — a Biphetamine capsule.
- black beetle — another name for the oriental cockroach
- black butter — beurre noir.
- black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
- black letter — a kind of heavy-faced, ornamental printing type
- black market — If something is bought or sold on the black market, it is bought or sold illegally.
- black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
- black sapote — a tropical American tree, Diospyros digyna, related to the persimmon, having sweet, edible, green fruit that turns black when ripe.
- 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 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