12-letter words that end in r
- barley sugar — Barley sugar is a sweet made from boiled sugar.
- barley water — Barley water is a drink made from barley. It is sometimes flavoured with orange or lemon.
- baroreceptor — a collection of sensory nerve endings, principally in the carotid sinuses and the aortic arch, that monitor blood pressure changes in the body
- barrel chair — a kind of upholstered chair with an upright, rounded back
- baryta water — an aqueous solution of barium hydroxide, used chiefly as a reagent.
- basal reader — an elementary-school textbook that teaches reading by combining stories with practice exercises: The Dick and Jane series was the most famous basal reader.
- basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
- basket maker — a member of an early Native American people of the southwestern US, preceding the Pueblo people, known for skill in basket-making
- basketballer — (informal) A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.
- basketweaver — a person who advocates simple, natural, and unsophisticated living
- bay-head bar — a sand bar at the head of a bay.
- be queer for — to have a strong liking for; be obsessed with
- beach-comber — a person who lives by gathering salable articles of jetsam, refuse, etc., from beaches.
- beach-la-mar — an English-based creole language spoken in Vanuatu and Fiji, and formerly much more widespread
- beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
- 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.
- bean-shooter — peashooter.
- beat the air — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- beautifuller — (obsolete) Comparative form of beautiful.
- beaver fever — an infectious disease caused by drinking water that has been contaminated by wildlife
- beche-de-mer — trepang
- beer drinker — a person who drinks beer
- beer parlour — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc in which beer is served
- bell heather — an ericaceous shrub, Erica cinerea
- belly dancer — A belly dancer is a woman who performs a Middle Eastern dance in which she moves her hips and abdomen about.
- belly-buster — belly flop.
- belteshazzar — the Babylonian name given to Daniel. Dan. 1:7.
- bench-warmer — a substitute who rarely gets to play in a game.
- bengal tiger — a large tiger found in S. Asia
- beta blocker — A beta blocker is a drug which is used to treat people who have high blood pressure or heart problems.
- beta emitter — a radioactive element, either natural or artificial, which changes into another element by emitting a beta particle
- 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.
- betel pepper — a tropical Asiatic climbing plant (Piper betle) of the pepper family
- bhubaneshwar — a state in E India. 60,136 sq. mi. (155,752 sq. km). Capital: Bhubaneshwar.
- bible banger — Bible-thumper.
- bible-banger — Bible-thumper.
- billy wilder — Billy (Samuel Wilder) 1906–2002, U.S. film director, producer, and writer; born in Austria.
- binary color — secondary color.
- bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
- biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
- bird fancier — a person who keeps, breeds, or sells birds
- bird watcher — a person who identifies and observes birds in their natural habitat as a recreation.
- bird-spotter — a bird-watcher
- bird-watcher — A bird-watcher is a person whose hobby is watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
- birth father — a biological mother (birth mother) or biological father (birth father) a biological parent.
- birth mother — the woman who gives birth to a child, regardless of whether she is the genetic mother or subsequently brings up the child
- bitter-ender — a person who persists in a hopeless cause; one who will not give in
- black butter — beurre noir.
- black copper — a regulus of 95-percent-pure copper, produced in a blast furnace by smelting oxidized copper ores.
- black letter — a kind of heavy-faced, ornamental printing type