12-letter words that end in t
- bubble float — a hollow spherical float that can be weighted with water to aid casting
- bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
- bucket about — (esp of a boat in a storm) to toss or shake violently
- buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
- bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
- bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
- bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
- bully pulpit — If someone in a prominent job or position publicly expresses their opinions about a particular subject, you can say that they are using their job or position as a bully pulpit.
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- bunny rabbit — rabbit
- burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
- cabot strait — a channel in Canada, connecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the Atlantic Ocean. 68 miles (109 km) wide.
- cafe au lait — coffee with milk
- cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
- caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
- calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
- call collect — If you call collect when you make a telephone call, the person who you are phoning pays the cost of the call and not you.
- campaign hat — a felt hat with a broad, stiff brim and four dents in the crown, formerly worn by personnel in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.
- cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
- capital cost — a cost incurred on the purchase of land, buildings, construction and equipment to be used in the production of goods or the rendering of services
- cardan joint — type of universal joint
- cardan shaft — A cardan shaft or cardan drive is a propeller shaft fitted with universal joints at each end.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- carey street — (formerly) the street in which the London bankruptcy court was situated
- cargo pocket — a large patch pocket, usually pleated at the sides and often having a flap.
- caricaturist — A caricaturist is a person who shows other people in an exaggerated way in order to be humorous or critical, especially in drawings or cartoons.
- carrick bitt — either of a pair of strong posts used for supporting a windlass
- carriwitchet — a conundrum, nonsensical question, or pun
- carry permit — a license to carry a handgun on one's person.
- carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
- carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
- cash account — an account with a brokerage which stipulates that the client pays in full for any transactions, rather than being extended credit
- cash deficit — the excess of cash disbursements over cash receipts in any given fiscal period
- cash payment — an immediate payment in cash
- cash receipt — A cash receipt is a proof of purchase issued when the buyer has paid in cash.
- catbird seat — an enviable position, as of power
- cattle egret — a small, white egret (Bubulcus ibis), an Old World bird that has expanded its range to North and South America: it often feeds on insects attracted to cattle and other grazing animals
- caught short — having a sudden need to urinate or defecate
- causationist — a person who believes in the theory of universal causation
- cave cricket — any of several nocturnal, wingless, cricketlike long-horned grasshoppers of the family Gryllacrididae, characterized by a humpbacked appearance and inhabiting dark moist habitats, as caves, cellars, hollow trees, and the ground under logs and stones.
- census tract — a standard area in certain large American cities used by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for purposes of population enumeration.
- centre court — the main court of a tennis complex, esp at Wimbledon
- cessationist — One who subscribes to cessationism.
- change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
- change point — a point to which a foresight and backsight are taken in levelling; turning point
- changepocket — a small pocket or compartment for holding coins.
- channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
- charcoal rot — a disease of plants, especially sorghum, corn, etc., characterized by basal stem lesions and a black discoloration and dry rot of the internal tissues at the base of the stem and upper roots, caused by a fungus, Macrophomina phaseoli.