12-letter words containing b, r, e, l
- venerability — commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress.
- verbal abuse — insulting, shouting at sb
- verbal irony — irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
- vers-librist — a person who writes free verse.
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- vigee-lebrun — (Marie Anne) Élisabeth [ma-ree an ey-lee-za-bet] /maˈri an eɪ li zaˈbɛt/ (Show IPA), 1755–1842, French painter.
- villeurbanne — a city in E France, near Lyons.
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- 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 ballet — synchronized movements, patterns, and other visual effects performed in the water by swimmers, usually to a musical accompaniment.
- water beetle — any of various aquatic beetles, as a predaceous diving beetle.
- 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.
- welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
- 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.
- 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.
- wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- winter blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness associated with experiencing the cold and darkness of winter
- withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- wobble board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument, producing a characteristic sound when flexed
- wood warbler — warbler (def 2).
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- world beater — If you describe a person or thing as a world beater, you mean that they are better than most other people or things of their kind.
- world-beater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
- yellow birch — a North American birch, Betula alleghaniensis (or B. lutea), having yellowish or silvery gray bark.
- zebra mussel — a small striped freshwater mussel from NE Europe, Dreissena polymorpha: introduced to the Great Lakes in the 1980s and deleteriously affecting water pipes, other fauna, etc.