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12-letter words containing a, b, n, e

  • bird-brained — silly; stupid
  • birket karun — a lake in N Egypt. 25 miles (40 km) long; about 5 miles (8 km) wide; 90 sq. mi. (233 sq. km).
  • birth parent — a biological mother (birth mother) or biological father (birth father) a biological parent.
  • biscay green — a yellowish green.
  • biscayne bay — an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the SE coast of Florida, separating the cities of Miami and Miami Beach.
  • biting stage — the second part of the oral phase of psychosexual development, approximately 8 to18 months of age, during which a child has the urge to bite or chew objects.
  • black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
  • black prince — Edward2 (Prince of Wales)
  • black tongue — canine pellagra.
  • bladder fern — a small fern, Cystoperis fragilis, with graceful lanceolate leaves, typically growing on limestone rocks and walls
  • blamableness — the state of being blamable
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • blank cheque — If someone is given a blank cheque, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
  • blanket bath — an all-over wash given to a person confined to bed
  • blanket roll — a blanket or sleeping bag rolled into a cylindrical pack for easy carrying and outdoor use by hikers, soldiers, cowboys, etc., often with cooking utensils, food, and personal articles carried inside.
  • blanket toss — a game in which a person is repeatedly tossed into the air and caught on an open blanket by a group of people who hold the blanket at its edges and stretch and relax it for each toss and catch.
  • blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
  • blennorrhoea — an excessive discharge of watery mucus, esp from the urethra or the vagina
  • bletheration — nonsense!
  • blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
  • blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
  • bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
  • bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
  • blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
  • bluefin tuna — the largest tuna (Thunnus thynnus): it has bright red flesh and is important as a game and food fish
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
  • body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
  • bog of allen — a region of peat bogs in central Ireland, west of Dublin. Area: over 10 sq km (3.75 sq miles)
  • boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
  • bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
  • boniface iii — pope a.d. 607.
  • boniface vii — antipope a.d. 974, 984–985.
  • bonne chance — good luck
  • bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
  • bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
  • bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
  • booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
  • boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.
  • boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
  • botticellian — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
  • box magazine — a rectangular cartridge holder in a submachine or light machine gun.
  • boxgrove man — a type of primitive man, probably Homo heidelbergensis, and probably dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period some 500 000 years ago; remains were found at Boxgrove in West Sussex in 1993 and 1995
  • bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
  • bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
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