12-letter words containing b, a, n, g, l
- billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
- bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
- black knight — a person or firm that makes an unwelcome takeover bid for a company
- black tongue — canine pellagra.
- blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
- blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
- blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
- blind casing — (in a box window frame) a rough framework to which the trim is secured.
- blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
- block caving — a method of mining a large block of ore by systematically undercutting so the ore will cave. Compare cave (def 5a).
- block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
- bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
- boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
- 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
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- 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.
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- 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.
- bowling ball — a round, heavy ball for bowling, usually made of hard rubber or plastic, with holes drilled into it for the bowler's thumb and two fingers.
- brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
- buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
- buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
- bull-baiting — the setting of dogs on a chained or confined bull, formerly a popular pastime in England
- by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
- cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conglobation — Formation into a ball, globe or rounded mass.
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- debilitating — tending to weaken or enfeeble
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- dining table — a table, especially one seating several persons, where meals are served and eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)