12-letter words containing b, o, w, l
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- globeflowers — Plural form of globeflower.
- go walkabout — to wander through the bush
- golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
- gollywobbler — a very large quadrilateral staysail set between the foremast and mainmast of a schooner.
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- lawn bowling — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
- lloyd webber — (Sir) Andrew, born 1948, English composer of musical theater.
- london brown — carbuncle (def 3).
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- middlebrowed — midway between highbrow and lowbrow
- mind-blowing — overwhelming; astounding: Spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience.
- nonrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- on a bowline — beating close to the wind
- out at elbow — ragged or impoverished
- overflow bit — (architecture) A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
- pillow block — a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing.
- powerbuilder — (tool, database) A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
- public works — government-funded construction
- rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
- rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
- rollaway bed — a bed on castors
- roots blower — a machine for compressing or evacuating air or gas by the rotation of a meshing pair of lobed wheels in a closely fitting case.
- slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
- snowmobilist — a person who drives a snowmobile, a snowmobiler
- subsoil plow — a plow for stirring the subsoil, usually without disturbing the surface.
- tennis elbow — irritation of the synovial membrane, or joint rotary area, of the elbow, caused by immoderate motions while playing tennis or other sports; epicondylitis.
- unfollowable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
- unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
- walking boot — a lightweight rigid knee-length boot with a reinforced sole and straps that fasten around the leg, used for support after a sprain or fracture
- warm-blooded — Also, endothermic. designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.
- water bottle — container that holds drinking water
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- well-beloved — loved deeply and sincerely: my well-beloved fiancé.
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- western blot — a highly sensitive procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific protein in a mixed extract, as in testing for AIDS virus protein in a blood sample: proteins are separated by gel electrophoresis and transferred to a special filter paper, on which the protein under investigation can be detected by a probe, as the binding of a labeled antibody.
- wheel wobble — an oscillation of the front wheels of a vehicle caused by a defect in the steering gear, unbalanced wheels, etc
- wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
- whole number — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- whortleberry — the edible black berry of a Eurasian shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, of the heath family.
- window blind — window shade.
- witch hobble — the hobblebush.
- wobble board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument, producing a characteristic sound when flexed
- womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
- wood warbler — warbler (def 2).
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.