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12-letter words containing b, e, c, l

  • bloodcurdler — something causing great fright or horror: a bloodcurdler of a mystery novel.
  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • blue succory — a composite garden plant, Catananche caerulea, of southern Europe, having very hairy leaves and blue flower heads, used by the ancients as a love potion.
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
  • boletic acid — fumaric acid.
  • bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
  • bombe glacée — a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
  • bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
  • botticellian — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
  • box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
  • brachycephal — a person with a brachycephalic head
  • bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
  • breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
  • breeze block — a cinder block.
  • breeze-block — A breeze-block is a large, grey brick made from ashes and cement.
  • brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
  • bubble dance — a solo dance by a nude or nearly nude woman, as in a burlesque show, using one or more balloons for covering.
  • buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
  • buckler fern — any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris, such as D. dilatata (broad buckler fern): family Polypodiaceae
  • buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
  • butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
  • bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
  • cabbage palm — a West Indian palm, Roystonea (or Oreodoxa) oleracea, whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage
  • cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
  • cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
  • cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
  • cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
  • 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
  • calabar bean — the dark brown very poisonous seed of a leguminous woody climbing plant, Physostigma venenosum, of tropical Africa, used as a source of the drug physostigmine
  • calabrasella — a card game for three persons that is played with a 40-card pack made by removing the eights, nines, and tens from a regular 52-card pack.
  • calculatable — Able to be calculated; calculable.
  • call-by-name — (reduction)   (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
  • call-by-need — (reduction)   A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
  • cannibalised — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalise.
  • cannibalized — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalize.
  • cannibalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cannibalize.
  • cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
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