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

  • snout beetle — weevil (def 1).
  • soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
  • socializable — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • 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.
  • somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
  • soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • 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.
  • stunt double — someone who performs dangerous stunts in a film in place of an actor
  • 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
  • subjectional — the act of subjecting.
  • sublineation — an underlining
  • 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 d'hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
  • table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
  • tattie-bogle — a scarecrow
  • technobabble — incomprehensible technical language or jargon.
  • tennis elbow — irritation of the synovial membrane, or joint rotary area, of the elbow, caused by immoderate motions while playing tennis or other sports; epicondylitis.
  • the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
  • the blue boy — a famous portrait by Gainsborough of a boy wearing a blue outfit
  • the bollocks — something excellent
  • the old bill — policemen collectively or in general
  • 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).
  • thermostable — capable of being subjected to a moderate degree of heat without loss of characteristic properties, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermolabile).
  • throttleable — capable of having the thrust varied.
  • tie-on label — a label that is fastened by tying on
  • timbale iron — a metal mold made in any of several shapes and usually provided with a long handle, for deep-frying timbales.
  • timberdoodle — the American woodcock, Philohela minor.
  • tobacco leaf — the leaves of the tobacco plant, used for the production of cigarettes and tobacco
  • toilet table — a low table with mirror or mirrors where you sit while dressing or applying makeup
  • tolerability — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
  • tom o'bedlam — a roving beggar afflicted with or feigning madness.
  • tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
  • tool subject — a subject that, when mastered, equips students with a skill useful in studying other subjects: Grammar is a tool subject for English composition.
  • tornado belt — the part of the U.S. in which tornadoes occur most frequently, roughly the area within a 500-mile (805-km) radius of southern Missouri.
  • toynbee hall — a residential settlement in East London, named after Arnold Toynbee (1852–83), a British economist and social reformer
  • transponible — capable of being transposed.
  • tribespeople — members of a tribe; people living a tribal lifestyle
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