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

  • east bengali — of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
  • ebb and flow — tidal movement
  • edible canna — a South American and West Indian herb, Canna edulis, having large sheathing leaves, red flowers, and edible rhizomes.
  • elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.
  • elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
  • elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
  • elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
  • elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
  • embattlement — (countable) A battlement.
  • emblazonment — The act of emblazoning.
  • emblazonries — Plural form of emblazonry.
  • embolization — (surgery) A nonsurgical, minimally invasive procedure that effects the selective occlusion of blood vessels by purposely introducing emboli.
  • enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
  • enderby land — part of the coastal region of Antarctica, between Kemp Land and Queen Maud Land: the westernmost part of the Australian Antarctic Territory (claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty); discovered in 1831
  • endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
  • enjoyability — The state or condition of being enjoyable.
  • entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
  • enviableness — Enviability.
  • equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
  • establishing — Present participle of establish.
  • exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
  • exchangeable — Able to be exchanged.
  • exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
  • exterminable — Capable of being exterminated.
  • fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
  • fall back on — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • falling band — a large, flat collar, usually trimmed with lace, worn by men in the 17th century.
  • fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
  • fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
  • fibrillation — the formation of fibrils.
  • file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
  • finance bill — a bill or act of a legislature to obtain funds for the public treasury.
  • fire balloon — a montgolfier.
  • fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
  • flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
  • flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
  • flamboyantly — In a flamboyant manner.
  • flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
  • flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
  • flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
  • floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
  • fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
  • fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
  • forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
  • franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
  • free balloon — a balloon, often equipped to carry passengers, that drifts with air currents and whose ascent and descent are controlled by the release of ballast and buoyant gas.
  • frequentable — Accessible.
  • frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
  • frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
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