12-letter words containing b, r, e, l
- nonbelievers — Plural form of nonbeliever.
- nonbreakable — Not easily broken.
- noncelebrity — a person who is not a celebrity
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- nonheritable — Not heritable.
- nonpermeable — capable of being permeated.
- nonremovable — that may be removed.
- nonrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- nonrepayable — that does not need to be or cannot be repaid
- nonrevocable — Not revocable.
- nonturbulent — Not turbulent.
- normalizable — That can be normalized.
- note verbale — a diplomatic communication prepared in the third person and unsigned: less formal than a note but more formal than an aide-mémoire.
- nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
- number plate — vehicle's registration panel
- numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- obliterating — Present participle of obliterate.
- obliteration — the act of obliterating or the state of being obliterated.
- obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
- olallieberry — a blackberry that is a cross between the loganberry and the youngberry, cultivated in California and Oregon.
- old believer — Raskolnik.
- olefin fiber — any of a group of synthetic textile fibers, as Herculon, formed from long-chain polymers no less than 85 percent ethylene, propylene, or other olefin units.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- oracle bones — animal bones used for divination
- orion nebula — a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion's sword.
- over-trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- overboldness — The state or fact of being too bold; audacity.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overflow bit — (architecture) A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- paleoliberal — a person advocating a more extreme form of liberalism, especially in politics.
- palm warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica palmarum, brown above and whitish or yellowish below.
- panel beater — a person who beats out the bodywork of motor vehicles
- parole board — panel who evaluate prisoners for release
- participable — capable of being shared.
- pearl barley — barley milled into small, round grains, used in cooking, especially in soups.
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- pearl harbor — a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941.
- peeblesshire — a historic county in S Scotland.
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- permeability — the property or state of being permeable.
- persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- phlebography — venography.
- phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
- pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).