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

  • blue helmets — armed troops under the sponsorship of the United Nations, used for peacekeeping
  • blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
  • blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • 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.
  • blue swimmer — an edible bluish Australian swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus
  • blue thistle — blueweed (def 1).
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
  • blue-thistle — Also called blue thistle. a bristly weed, Echium vulgare, of the borage family, having showy blue flowers, a native of Europe naturalized in the U.S.
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
  • body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
  • bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
  • boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
  • boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
  • boiler house — a building housing a boiler
  • boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
  • bolshevikism — the doctrines, methods, or procedure of the Bolsheviks.
  • bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
  • bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
  • bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
  • bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
  • bootlessness — the quality of being useless or ineffective
  • 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.
  • bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
  • bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • bottomlessly — from a bottomless point of view
  • bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
  • bourne shell — (sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts. There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?]
  • box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
  • brass plaque — a brass plate screwed to a wall or other structure and engraved with a name or other information, esp to commemorate an important event
  • breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
  • breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
  • breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
  • breed's hill — a hill in E Massachusetts, adjoining Bunker Hill: the true site of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • brinell test — a test for determining the relative hardness (Brinell hardness) of a metal by measuring the diameter of the indentation made when a hardened steel ball is forced into the metal under a given pressure: the measure of hardness (Brinell number) is equal to the load in kilograms divided by the surface area in square millimeters of the indentation
  • brise-soleil — a structure used in hot climates to protect a window from the sun, usually consisting of horizontal or vertical strips of wood, concrete, etc
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • brittle star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, having the body composed of a central, rounded disk from which radiate long, slender, fragile arms.
  • brittle-star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, occurring on the sea bottom and having five long slender arms radiating from a small central disc
  • 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
  • brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
  • buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
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