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12-letter words containing b, l, u, n

  • blackcurrant — In Europe, blackcurrants are a type of very small, dark purple fruits that grow in bunches on bushes.
  • blank cheque — If someone is given a blank cheque, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
  • blastulation — the process of blastula formation
  • blind summit — a point on a road where a vehicle approaching the top of a hill or incline cannot see vehicles approaching up the other side of the hill
  • blissfulness — full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss.
  • blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
  • 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 norther — a cold north wind that brings rapidly falling temperatures.
  • blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
  • blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
  • blue-on-blue — of or relating to friendly fire
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • bluefin tuna — the largest tuna (Thunnus thynnus): it has bright red flesh and is important as a game and food fish
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • 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.
  • boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
  • bodybuilding — Bodybuilding is the activity of doing special exercises regularly in order to make your muscles grow bigger.
  • boudin blanc — a boiled sausage made with light-colored meat, as veal or chicken, and without blood
  • bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
  • bouillon cup — a small, bowl-shaped vessel, with two handles, in which bouillon is served.
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
  • bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • bubble dance — a solo dance by a nude or nearly nude woman, as in a burlesque show, using one or more balloons for covering.
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • bubble under — to remain just beneath a particular level
  • buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
  • 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 gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
  • buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • bull session — A bull session is an informal conversation among a small group of people.
  • bull-baiting — the setting of dogs on a chained or confined bull, formerly a popular pastime in England
  • bullamakanka — an imaginary very remote and backward place
  • bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
  • bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
  • bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
  • bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
  • bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
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