12-letter words containing b, e, l, s
- bull session — A bull session is an informal conversation among a small group of people.
- bull thistle — a tall, spiny thistle, Cirsium vulgare, having heads of pink to purple flowers: a common weed in North America.
- bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
- bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- businesslike — If you describe someone as businesslike, you mean that they deal with things in an efficient way without wasting time.
- busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
- by all means — You can say 'by all means' to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something.
- by the balls — so as to be rendered powerless
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
- cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- 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.
- cannibalised — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalise.
- cannibalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cannibalize.
- capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
- carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
- carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- channel bass — red drum.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
- class object — (programming) In object-oriented programming, an object of class "class" that represents a class at run time. The existence of class objects allows introspection - the ability for a program to discover and modify attributes of its own code. (See self-modifying code). A class object may also be used for "housekeeping" tasks like keeping count of how many objects of the class have been created, though this may also be done by some kind of collection object. A class method is a method that operates on class objects.
- classifiable — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
- cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
- close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
- clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
- cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
- cluster bomb — A cluster bomb is a type of bomb which is dropped from an aircraft. It contains a large number of smaller bombs that spread out before they hit the ground.
- cobblestoned — Cobbled; laid with cobblestones.
- cobblestones — Plural form of cobblestone.
- cock lobster — a male lobster
- cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
- collaborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collaborate.
- collectables — capable of being collected.
- collectibles — capable of being collected.
- collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
- collembolous — of or relating to colembolans
- collywobbles — an upset stomach
- combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- commiserable — worthy of commiseration; pitiable