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

  • bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
  • bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
  • bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
  • bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
  • bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
  • booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
  • bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
  • bootlessness — the quality of being useless or ineffective
  • bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
  • bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
  • botticellian — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
  • bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
  • bottle green — a deep green.
  • bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
  • bottle-green — Something that is bottle-green is dark green in colour.
  • bottled beer — beer in a bottle, rather than from a barrel
  • bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
  • bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
  • bottomlessly — from a bottomless point of view
  • 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 light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • 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.
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • bubble float — a hollow spherical float that can be weighted with water to aid casting
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
  • 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
  • bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • bus topology — bus
  • butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
  • 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.
  • cactoblastis — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum of South America, that was introduced into Australia to act as a biological control on the prickly pear
  • calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
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