12-letter words containing t, r, a, p
- autographing — Present participle of autograph.
- automorphism — the practice of seeing others as having the same characteristics as oneself
- azathioprine — a synthetic drug that suppresses the normal immune responses of the body and is administered orally during and after organ transplantation and also in certain types of autoimmune disease. Formula: C9H7N7O2S
- b-s particle — a neutral meson with a mass 10,507 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.6 X 10 -12 seconds.
- bach trumpet — a modern small three-valved trumpet for playing clarino passages in Bach's music
- bad-tempered — Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily.
- ballot paper — A ballot paper is a piece of paper on which you indicate your choice or opinion in an election or ballot.
- bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
- baptisteries — Plural form of baptistery.
- barbecue pit — a trench in which wood or charcoal is burned for barbecuing
- baroreceptor — a collection of sensory nerve endings, principally in the carotid sinuses and the aortic arch, that monitor blood pressure changes in the body
- barrow point — the northernmost tip of Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean
- bat printing — ornamenting of ceramics by means of an adhesive substance, as linseed oil, transferred onto the ceramic surface from a sheet of glue or gelatin, dusted with color, and fired.
- bathing wrap — a loose robe to wear after bathing, often made of towelling
- bathygraphic — of or relating to the depths of the ocean
- bathyspheres — Plural form of bathysphere.
- battery-park — The, a park at the S end of Manhattan, in New York City.
- battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
- beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
- bean sprouts — the sprouts of newly germinated mung beans, eaten as a vegetable, esp in Chinese dishes
- beat the rap — If you beat the rap, you avoid being blamed for something wrong that you have done.
- beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
- biparentally — from a biparental point of view
- bipropellant — a rocket propellant consisting of two substances, usually a fuel and an oxidizer
- birth parent — a biological mother (birth mother) or biological father (birth father) a biological parent.
- bitter apple — colocynth
- black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
- blastosphere — blastula
- 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
- boating trip — a trip or holiday in a boat such as a sailing boat or canal boat
- boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
- 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
- bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
- bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
- 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.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
- brevipennate — (of flightless birds) short-winged
- bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
- bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- buck private — a common soldier
- buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
- butter paper — a semi-transparent, waterproof paper used for wrapping butter, etc
- bypass ratio — the ratio of the amount of air that bypasses the combustion chambers of an aircraft gas turbine to that passing through them
- caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
- camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
- camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor