12-letter words containing b, e, l, i, t
- early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
- east bengali — of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
- ebulliometer — a device used to determine the boiling point of a solution
- elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.
- elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
- electability — The capability of a candidate to be elected.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- elizabeth ii — born 1926, queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1952; daughter of George VI
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emblematical — See emblematic.
- emblematized — Simple past tense and past participle of emblematize.
- embolization — (surgery) A nonsurgical, minimally invasive procedure that effects the selective occlusion of blood vessels by purposely introducing emboli.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- enjoyability — The state or condition of being enjoyable.
- 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.
- equilibrists — Plural form of equilibrist.
- equitability — The quality of being equitable; equitableness.
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- evolvability — (biology) The ability of a particular organism to evolve.
- excitability — (uncountable) The state of being excitable.
- exobiologist — A biologist whose speciality is exobiology.
- 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.
- fertilizable — Capable of being fertilized.
- file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fit the bill — If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- 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.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- gaming table — a table used for gambling, especially one designed with a game board and slots for chips.
- generability — capable of being generated or produced.
- gentian blue — a purplish-blue colour
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.