12-letter words containing b, o, r, e, l
- dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde
- discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- disembroiled — Simple past tense and past participle of disembroil.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dole bludger — a person who collects unemployment benefits but makes no serious effort to get work.
- double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- double doors — set of 2 doors side by side
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- double ender — a double-ended vessel.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- double major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
- double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- ebracteolate — having no bractlets
- ebulliometer — a device used to determine the boiling point of a solution
- elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- elbow grease — physical effort
- ellenborough — Earl of, title of Edward Law. 1780–1871, British colonial administrator: governor general of India (1742–44)
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emblazonries — Plural form of emblazonry.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
- equilibrious — In equilibrium; balanced.
- equiprobable — (of two or more things ) equally likely to occur; having equal probability.
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- everblooming — (of a plant) blooming repeatedly during the growing season
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- fall webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- floor broker — a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for other brokers.
- flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.