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

  • 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 sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts.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.
  • bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
  • bowling ball — a round, heavy ball for bowling, usually made of hard rubber or plastic, with holes drilled into it for the bowler's thumb and two fingers.
  • boxing glove — Boxing gloves are big padded gloves worn for boxing.
  • bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
  • broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
  • bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
  • buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
  • bull session — A bull session is an informal conversation among a small group of people.
  • 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 wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • 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
  • button quail — any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica (striped button quail), occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)
  • buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
  • cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
  • carbocholine — carbachol.
  • carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
  • carbon cycle — the circulation of carbon between living organisms and their surroundings. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is synthesized by plants into plant tissue, which is ingested and metabolized by animals and converted to carbon dioxide again during respiration and decay
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
  • carolina bay — any of the shallow, usually marshy, oval depressions found in the coastal plains of the eastern U.S. that are heavily forested and have rich soil.
  • cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
  • celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
  • charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
  • chlorocarbon — a chemical compound containing carbon and chlorine, as carbon tetrachloride, or containing carbon, chlorine, and hydrogen, as chloroform.
  • chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
  • cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
  • clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
  • clara barton — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
  • clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
  • cloud banner — banner cloud.
  • coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
  • cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
  • cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
  • cobblestoned — Cobbled; laid with cobblestones.
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