12-letter words containing a, d, o, l
- anecdotalism — an inclination to relate anecdotes
- angle of dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- anglo-indian — An Anglo-Indian person is someone whose family is partly British and partly Indian.
- anthologised — Simple past tense and past participle of anthologise.
- anthologized — to compile an anthology.
- anthropoidal — Anthropoid.
- antidilution — (of a provision or protection) acting to prevent a company from issuing equity at a low valuation
- apodeictical — Apodeictic.
- apostle bird — a gregarious grey-and-brown Australian nest-building bird, Struthidea cinerea
- armor-plated — An armor-plated vehicle or building has a hard metal covering in order to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- artiodactyle — (zoology) One of the Artiodactyla, a group of ungulates.
- artiodactyls — Plural form of artiodactyl.
- ash-coloured — silver-grey in colour
- astoundingly — capable of overwhelming with amazement; stunningly surprising.
- audio-visual — Audio-visual equipment and materials involve both recorded sound and pictures.
- audiological — Of, or pertaining to, audiology, or the study of hearing.
- audiologists — Plural form of audiologist.
- audiovisuals — Plural form of audiovisual.
- auditorially — Anatomy, Physiology. pertaining to hearing, to the sense of hearing, or to the organs of hearing.
- autodiallers — Plural form of autodialler.
- avoidability — The possibility of avoiding; the state or condition of being avoidable.
- bachelor pad — a flat in which a bachelor lives
- bachelorhood — the state of being a bachelor.
- back molding — a molding, as a backband, applied to interior window and door trim to conceal the edge of the wall surface.
- baden-powell — Robert Stephenson Smyth (smɪθ, smaɪθ), 1st Baron Baden-Powell. 1857–1941, British general, noted for his defence of Mafeking (1899–1900) in the Boer War; founder of the Boy Scouts (1908) and (with his sister Agnes) the Girl Guides (1910)
- baffle board — a plate or mechanical device designed to restrain or regulate the flow of a fluid, the emission of light or sound, or the distribution of sound, esp in a loudspeaker or microphone
- baklava code — (humour, programming) Code with too many layers. Also known as Lasagne Code.
- ballad opera — an opera consisting of popular tunes to which appropriate words have been set, interspersed with spoken dialogue
- balladmonger — (formerly) a seller of ballads, esp on broadsheets
- banderillero — a bullfighter's assistant who sticks banderillas into the bull
- bank holiday — A bank holiday is a public holiday.
- banner cloud — a plume-shaped cloud extending downwind from an isolated mountain peak. Also called cloud banner. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- bardolatrous — relating to or characterized by bardolatry
- battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
- beaconsfield — a town in SE England, in Buckinghamshire. Pop: 12 292 (2001)
- bead molding — bead (def 12).
- bed of nails — a situation or position of extreme difficulty
- belleau wood — a forest in N France: site of a battle (1918) in which the US Marines halted a German advance on Paris
- bill and coo — the parts of a bird's jaws that are covered with a horny or leathery sheath; beak.
- bioflavonoid — any of a group of biologically active flavone compounds that may help maintain the blood's capillary walls, reducing the likelihood of hemorrhaging: widely found in plants, esp. citrus fruits
- black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
- bladder worm — an encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm. The main types are cysticercus, hydatid, and coenurus
- block island — an island off the coast of and a part of Rhode Island, at the E entrance to Long Island Sound.
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- blood plasma — the pale yellow fluid portion of the blood; blood from which red and white blood cells and platelets have been removed
- blood sample — an amount of a person's blood taken from their body for use in medical tests
- blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.