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12-letter words containing ar

  • board member — a member of board of directors
  • board school — (formerly) a school managed by a board elected by local ratepayers
  • board shorts — shorts with longer legs, originally meant to protect a surfer's legs against the surfboard
  • boarder baby — an infant or young child who is abandoned or orphaned and left in a hospital for lack of a foster home.
  • boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
  • boardsailing — windsurfing
  • bodyboarding — the sport of surfing using a bodyboard
  • bog rosemary — any of several species (genus Andromeda) of evergreen shrubs of the heath family, native to cold bogs of North America and Europe, with pink flowers and narrow leaves
  • bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
  • boogie board — a small, flexible plastic surfboard, ridden lying down.
  • border guard — a guard stationed on a border between countries
  • bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
  • bottom quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 4.7 to 5.3 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
  • boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • brahmacharya — the stage of life of the student, entailing study of the Vedas and complete celibacy, usually lasting for twelve years.
  • brass-collar — unwaveringly faithful to a political party; voting the straight ticket: a brass-collar Democrat.
  • breaker card — the first card in the carding process, used to open the raw stock and to convert it into sliver form.
  • 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.
  • bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
  • british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
  • brittle star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, having the body composed of a central, rounded disk from which radiate long, slender, fragile arms.
  • brittle-star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, occurring on the sea bottom and having five long slender arms radiating from a small central disc
  • broca's area — the region of the cerebral cortex of the brain concerned with speech; the speech centre
  • brochureware — (jargon, business)   A planned, but non-existent, product, like vaporware but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed to con customers into not committing to a competing existing product. The term is now especially applicable to new websites, website revisions, and ancillary services such as customer support and product return. Owing to the explosion of database-driven, cookie-using dot-coms (of the sort that can now deduce that you are, in fact, a dog), the term is now also used to describe sites made up of static HTML pages that contain not much more than contact info and mission statements. The term suggests that the company is small, irrelevant to the web, local in scope, clueless, broke, just starting out, or some combination thereof. Many new companies without product, funding, or even staff, post brochureware with investor info and press releases to help publicise their ventures. As of December 1999, examples include pop.com and cdradio.com. Small-timers that really have no business on the web such as lawncare companies and divorce laywers inexplicably have brochureware made that stays unchanged for years.
  • broken arrow — a town in NE Oklahoma.
  • broken heart — If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
  • buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
  • bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
  • bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
  • bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
  • buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
  • buzzards bay — arm of the Atlantic, on the SE coast of Mass., at the base of Cape Cod peninsula
  • by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
  • caesar salad — Caesar salad is a type of salad containing lettuce, eggs, cheese, and small pieces of fried bread, served with a dressing of oil, vinegar, and herbs.
  • calabar bean — the dark brown very poisonous seed of a leguminous woody climbing plant, Physostigma venenosum, of tropical Africa, used as a source of the drug physostigmine
  • calcareously — in a calcareous manner
  • calendar api — Calendar Application Programming Interface
  • calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
  • calendar day — the period from one midnight to the following midnight.
  • call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
  • calling card — A calling card is a small card with personal information about you on it, such as your name and address, which you can give to people when you go to visit them.
  • camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • canary grass — any of various grasses of the genus Phalaris, esp P. canariensis, that is native to Europe and N Africa and has straw-coloured seeds used as birdseed
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