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12-letter words containing b, a, l, o

  • bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • button quail — any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica (striped button quail), occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)
  • by wholesale — at wholesale
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
  • cactoblastis — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum of South America, that was introduced into Australia to act as a biological control on the prickly pear
  • calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
  • camphor ball — mothball
  • cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
  • cape buffalo — a large, black, nearly hairless, very fierce buffalo (Syncerus caffer) of South Africa, with horns joined at the bases to form a helmetlike structure
  • capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
  • carbocholine — carbachol.
  • carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
  • carbon cycle — the circulation of carbon between living organisms and their surroundings. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is synthesized by plants into plant tissue, which is ingested and metabolized by animals and converted to carbon dioxide again during respiration and decay
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • carolina bay — any of the shallow, usually marshy, oval depressions found in the coastal plains of the eastern U.S. that are heavily forested and have rich soil.
  • cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
  • cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
  • cebocephalic — Exhibiting or relating to cebocephaly.
  • celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
  • charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
  • charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
  • child labour — the full-time employment of children below a minimum age laid down by statute
  • chlorambucil — an alkylating drug derived from nitrogen mustard, administered orally in the treatment of leukaemia and other malignant diseases. Formula: C14H19Cl2NO2
  • chlorocarbon — a chemical compound containing carbon and chlorine, as carbon tetrachloride, or containing carbon, chlorine, and hydrogen, as chloroform.
  • chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
  • ciliary body — the part of the vascular tunic of the eye that connects the choroid with the iris
  • circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
  • clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
  • clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
  • clara barton — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
  • class object — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, an object of class "class" that represents a class at run time. The existence of class objects allows introspection - the ability for a program to discover and modify attributes of its own code. (See self-modifying code). A class object may also be used for "housekeeping" tasks like keeping count of how many objects of the class have been created, though this may also be done by some kind of collection object. A class method is a method that operates on class objects.
  • clavicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
  • close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
  • cloud banner — banner cloud.
  • coachability — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
  • coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
  • coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
  • cobalt bloom — erythrite (def 1)
  • cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
  • cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
  • coccobacilli — a spherelike bacillus.
  • cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
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