12-letter words containing b, a, t, l
- balinese cat — a breed of cat with medium-length silky hair, a plumed tail, blue eyes, large ears, and a dark mask, tail, and paws
- ball control — the skill of controlling the ball in a game such as football or tennis
- ball turning — the turning of arms or legs on furniture to make them resemble a continuous row of balls.
- ballad metre — the metre of a ballad stanza
- ballast line — the level to which a vessel is immersed when in ballast.
- ballet blanc — a ballet in which the ballerinas' skirts are white.
- ballet skirt — a full skirt, often made with several layers of fabric, typical of those worn by ballet dancers
- ballet suite — music written for a ballet but suitable or arranged for performance in an orchestral concert.
- balletically — in a balletic fashion; gracefully
- balletomanes — Plural form of balletomane.
- balletomania — passionate enthusiasm for ballet
- balloon seat — (on some 18th-century chairs) a seat having an outline resembling that of a bell.
- balloon tire — a wide, deep-walled pneumatic tire with relatively low air pressure to lessen the shock of bumps
- balloon tyre — a pneumatic tyre containing air at a relatively low pressure and having a wide tread
- ballot paper — A ballot paper is a piece of paper on which you indicate your choice or opinion in an election or ballot.
- ballottement — a technique of feeling for a movable object in the body, esp confirmation of pregnancy by feeling the rebound of the fetus following a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus
- balto-slavic — the Baltic and Slavic languages, when considered as constituting a subfamily within the Indo-European family of languages: the Baltic and Slavic branches are now generally considered by scholars as independently derived from Indo-European
- baluchithere — a hornless rhinoceros of the extinct genus Baluchitherium that inhabited central Asia during the Oligocene and early Miocene epochs: the largest land mammal known.
- banalization — the process of becoming or making something banal
- banana split — A banana split is a kind of dessert. It consists of a banana cut in half along its length, with ice cream, nuts, and sauce on top.
- bardolatrous — relating to or characterized by bardolatry
- barley water — Barley water is a drink made from barley. It is sometimes flavoured with orange or lemon.
- barometrical — (archaic) Relating to, or observed with, a barometer, barometric.
- barratrously — In a barratrous manner.
- barrel vault — a vault in the form of a half cylinder
- barristerial — pertaining to a barrister
- bartlesville — a city in NE Oklahoma.
- basementless — without a basement
- basketballer — (informal) A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.
- basse-taille — of or relating to an enameling technique in which transparent enamels are fused over a background carved in low relief, or to a piece, as of jewelry, so enameled.
- basset table — a card table of the early 18th century in England.
- bastard file — a file of the commercial grade of coarseness between coarse and second-cut.
- bastel house — (on the Anglo-Scottish border) a partly fortified house, usually with a vaulted ground floor.
- bastille day — (in France) an annual holiday on July 14, commemorating the fall of the Bastille
- bathetically — in a bathetic fashion
- bathophilous — (of an organism) living in very deep water
- bathypelagic — of, relating to, or inhabiting the lower depths of the ocean between approximately 1000 and 4000 metres
- batten plate — (in structural design) a horizontal rectangular plate that is used to connect pairs of steel sections by being riveted or welded across them to form a composite section
- battle array — the strategic arrangement of fighters and weapons in a battle
- battle clasp — clasp (def 4).
- battle creek — a city in S Michigan.
- battle dress — military field uniform and accouterments, generally camouflaged and stripped of all ornamentation.
- battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
- battle royal — a fight, esp with fists or cudgels, involving more than two combatants; melee
- battle wagon — a battleship.
- battlefields — Plural form of battlefield.
- battlefronts — Plural form of battlefront.
- battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
- battlemented — Furnished with battlements, as the ramparts of a city or castle.
- battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.