12-letter words containing b, r, a, t, l
- blastosphere — blastula
- blatherskite — a talkative silly person
- blaue reiter — der Blaue Reiter. a group of German expressionist painters formed in Munich in 1911, including Kandinsky and Klee, who sought to express the spiritual side of man and nature, which they felt had been neglected by impressionism
- blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
- bletheration — nonsense!
- bletherskate — a blatherer
- blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
- block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
- blues guitar — blues guitar music
- 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
- bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
- branch plant — a plant or factory in Canada belonging to a company whose headquarters are in another country
- brazilianite — a mineral, sodium aluminum phosphate, Na 2 Al 6 P 4 O 16 (OH) 8 , occurring in yellow-green crystals with a vitreous luster: used as a gem.
- breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
- breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
- breathalyzer — A Breathalyzer is a bag or electronic device that the police use to test whether a driver has drunk too much alcohol.
- breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
- bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
- brilliantine — a perfumed oil used to make the hair smooth and shiny
- british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
- brittle star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, having the body composed of a central, rounded disk from which radiate long, slender, fragile arms.
- brittle-star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, occurring on the sea bottom and having five long slender arms radiating from a small central disc
- brushability — the quality of being brushable
- bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
- 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.
- 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.
- carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- celebreality — a television genre that is unscripted and involves either the day-to-day documentation of a celebrity’s life or competitive challenges that a celebrity or celebrities must perform
- celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
- central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
- clara barton — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
- cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
- cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
- collaborated — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- collaborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collaborate.