12-letter words containing b, o, w, l
- allowability — The state of being allowable; legitimacy; permissibleness.
- at a low ebb — in a state or period of weakness, lack of vigour, or decline
- avowableness — the quality or condition of being avowable
- baden-powell — Robert Stephenson Smyth (smɪθ, smaɪθ), 1st Baron Baden-Powell. 1857–1941, British general, noted for his defence of Mafeking (1899–1900) in the Boer War; founder of the Boy Scouts (1908) and (with his sister Agnes) the Girl Guides (1910)
- bank swallow — a swallow, Riparia riparia, of the Northern Hemisphere, that nests in tunnels dug in sand or clay banks.
- barn swallow — the US and Canadian name for the common swallow, Hirundo rustica
- battle wagon — a battleship.
- battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
- battleworthy — capable of engaging in combat; ready for battle: a decline in the nation's battleworthy forces.
- begging bowl — If a country or organization approaches other countries or organizations with a begging bowl, it asks them for money.
- belleau wood — a forest in N France: site of a battle (1918) in which the US Marines halted a German advance on Paris
- bellows fish — snipefish.
- below ground — If something is below ground or below the ground, it is in the ground.
- below stairs — People sometimes use below stairs to refer to the servants in a rich household and the things that are connected with them.
- billow cloud — a cloud consisting of broad, parallel bands oriented perpendicularly to the wind.
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- bladder worm — an encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm. The main types are cysticercus, hydatid, and coenurus
- blow by blow — precisely detailed; describing every minute detail and step: a blow-by-blow account of the tennis match; a blow-by-blow report on the wedding ceremony.
- blow molding — Blow molding is a process for forming plastic objects in which plastic is melted, put in a mold, and then shaped by having compressed air blown into it.
- blow through — to leave; make off
- blow-by-blow — A blow-by-blow account of an event describes every stage of it in great detail.
- blow-molding — the sound of any vapor or gas issuing from a vent under pressure.
- blue dogwood — a shrub or small tree, Cornus alternifolia, of eastern North America, having clusters of white flowers and bluish fruit.
- boil down to — If you say that a situation or problem boils down to a particular thing or can be boiled down to a particular thing, you mean that this is the most important or the most basic aspect of it.
- boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
- bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- 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.
- brooks's law — (programming) "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" - a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of "The Mythical Man-Month". The myth in question has been most tersely expressed as "Programmer time is fungible" and Brooks established conclusively that it is not. Hackers have never forgotten his advice; too often, management still does. See also creationism, second-system effect, optimism.
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
- bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
- collywobbles — an upset stomach
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- dessert bowl — A dessert bowl is a bowl in which a dessert is served.
- disallowable — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disemboweled — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- downloadable — Capable of being downloaded.
- ebb and flow — tidal movement
- elbow grease — physical effort
- 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.
- fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
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