12-letter words containing b, a, r, l, e
- early hebrew — noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.
- ebracteolate — having no bractlets
- elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- elbow grease — physical effort
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emblazonries — Plural form of emblazonry.
- 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.
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
- equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
- equiprobable — (of two or more things ) equally likely to occur; having equal probability.
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- exterminable — Capable of being exterminated.
- extraditable — (of a crime) rendering the offender liable to extradition
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- fall webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- fertilizable — Capable of being fertilized.
- fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- 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.
- flat battery — power cell that has run down
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- foot-lambert — a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, equal to the luminance of a surface emitting a luminous flux of one lumen per square foot, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle. Abbreviation: fL.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- formalizable — Capable of being formalized.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- 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.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.