12-letter words containing be
- 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.
- bottled beer — beer in a bottle, rather than from a barrel
- bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
- brambleberry — the fruit of a bramble.
- bucket bench — a Pennsylvania Dutch dresser having a lower portion closed with doors for milk pails, an open shelf for water pails, and an upper section with shallow drawers.
- buffalo robe — a carriage robe or rug made of the skin of the bison, dressed with the hair on
- buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
- bur cucumber — a climbing vine, Sicyos angulatus, of the gourd family, of eastern and midwestern North America, having leaves with pointed lobes, small white or greenish flowers, and clusters of prickly fruits.
- butyl rubber — a copolymer of isobutene and isoprene, used in tyres and as a waterproofing material
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- 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
- camber piece — a centering for a flat arch, slightly crowned to allow for settling of the arch.
- carbon fiber — a very strong, lightweight synthetic fiber used in protective clothing, spacecraft components, racing shells, etc.
- carpetbeater — A tool used in housecleaning that was in common use before the invention of the vacuum cleaner.
- carrick bend — type of knot
- chamber tomb — a prehistoric tomb with a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
- chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- checkerberry — the fruit of any of various plants, esp the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chinaberries — Plural form of chinaberry.
- chipped beef — dried or smoked beef sliced into shavings, often served in a cream sauce
- chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
- circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
- clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
- click beetle — any beetle of the family Elateridae, which have the ability to right themselves with a snapping movement when placed on their backs
- cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
- coffee beans — the beanlike seeds of the coffee tree, which are roasted and ground to make coffee
- color-bearer — the person assigned to carry the colors, or flag, as in a parade or ceremony
- comber board — (in weaving) a wooden frame pierced with a series of small holes through which the harness cords are threaded, used to regulate the cords and determine the texture and width of a repeat in a fabric.
- come between — If someone or something comes between two people, or comes between a person and a thing, they make the relationship or connection between them less close or happy.
- contabescent — unable to produce pollen
- copper beech — A copper beech is a type of tree with reddish-brown leaves.
- coralberries — Plural form of coralberry.
- corbel table — a horizontal masonry construction, as a cornice or part of a wall, supported on corbels or on arches supported on corbels.
- corbel vault — a structure having the form of a vault but constructed on the principle of a corbel arch.
- cost-benefit — denoting or relating to a method of assessing a project that takes into account its costs and its benefits to society as well as the revenue it generates
- crackerberry — bunchberry.
- crepe rubber — a type of crude natural rubber in the form of colourless or pale yellow crinkled sheets, prepared by pressing bleached coagulated latex through corrugated rollers: used for the soles of shoes and in making certain surgical and medical goods
- crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
- cross-bearer — a person who carries or holds a cross, especially in a religious procession.
- cross-bedded — having irregular laminations, as strata of sandstone, inclining in various directions not coincident with the general stratification.
- crossbencher — A member of the British parliament, or a similar assembly, who does not vote regularly with either the government or the main opposition party.
- cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
- cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
- cyberathlete — a professional player of computer games
- cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.