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12-letter words containing b, l, u, e, r

  • 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 vitriol — the fully hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulphate
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • 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
  • boiler house — a building housing a boiler
  • boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
  • bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
  • boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
  • boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
  • 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 sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts.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?]
  • bournonville — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1805–79, Danish ballet dancer and choreographer.
  • 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
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • 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
  • bubble under — to remain just beneath a particular level
  • bubblegummer — a young teenager; adolescent.
  • buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
  • buckler fern — any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris, such as D. dilatata (broad buckler fern): family Polypodiaceae
  • buffalo robe — a carriage robe or rug made of the skin of the bison, dressed with the hair on
  • buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
  • buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
  • bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
  • bull terrier — A bull terrier is a breed of strong dog with a short, whitish coat and a thick neck.
  • bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
  • bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
  • burrillville — a town in N Rhode Island.
  • 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-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
  • butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
  • butyl rubber — a copolymer of isobutene and isoprene, used in tyres and as a waterproofing material
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • carbamylurea — biuret.
  • carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
  • carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
  • carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
  • charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
  • cherubically — In a cherubic way.
  • child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
  • chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
  • circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
  • circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
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