12-letter words containing b, e, r, o, l
- redoublement — the act of redoubling
- reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
- renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- renounceable — of a nature that can be renounced
- reproachable — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- rhombohedral — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
- ribbon cable — (hardware) A type of flat multicore cable with cores positioned side-by-side, making it quick and relatively easy to clamp an Insulation Displacement Connector (IDC) across all cores. Ribbon cables typically have grey insulation with cores on a 0.050" pitch and a red stripe marking Pin 1. They are less resilient than screened, multicore cable and are usually used inside equipment where little movement or plugging and unplugging are expected. A common use is connecting a disk drive to the motherboard in a PC.
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- rock climber — sb who scales mountains
- rock lobster — spiny lobster.
- rollaway bed — a bed on castors
- roller blind — a blind consisting of a length of fabric rolled around a pole and fitted to the top of a window
- roller derby — a race on roller skates, esp one involving aggressive tactics
- rollerblader — someone who skates using Rollerblades
- root climber — a plant that clings to a surface and climbs by means of adventitious roots, as the ivy, Hedera helix.
- roots blower — a machine for compressing or evacuating air or gas by the rotation of a meshing pair of lobed wheels in a closely fitting case.
- rotary table — A rotary table is a revolving part which turns the drill string.
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- semiarboreal — (of animals) spending half or some of their life in trees
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- slave labour — Slave labour refers to slaves or to work done by slaves.
- sleeper goby — any gobioid fish of the family Eleotridae, of brackish or fresh tropical waters, resembling the gobies but lacking a ventral sucker
- sleeve board — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- sub-religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- subdelirious — having the symptoms of subdelirium; suffering from subdelirium
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- submolecular — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- subopercular — of or relating to the suboperculum
- suboperculum — a bone in fishes behind the operculum or gill covering
- subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
- superposable — to place above or upon something else, or one upon another.
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- the troubles — political unrest or public disturbances
- thermolabile — subject to destruction or loss of characteristic properties by the action of moderate heat, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermostable).