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12-letter words containing b, y, l, o

  • body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
  • body politic — The body politic is all the people of a nation when they are considered as a complete political group.
  • bodybuilding — Bodybuilding is the activity of doing special exercises regularly in order to make your muscles grow bigger.
  • boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
  • bombay hills — a row of hills marking the southern boundary of greater Auckland on the North Island, New Zealand
  • bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
  • bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
  • bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
  • bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
  • bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
  • bottomlessly — from a bottomless point of view
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • boyoma falls — a series of seven cataracts in the NE Democratic Republic of Congo, on the upper River Congo: forms an unnavigable stretch of 90 km (56 miles), which falls 60 m (200 ft)
  • buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
  • bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
  • bus topology — bus
  • by deed poll — In Britain, if you change your name by deed poll, you change it officially and legally.
  • by wholesale — at wholesale
  • bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • carbon cycle — the circulation of carbon between living organisms and their surroundings. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is synthesized by plants into plant tissue, which is ingested and metabolized by animals and converted to carbon dioxide again during respiration and decay
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • carolina bay — any of the shallow, usually marshy, oval depressions found in the coastal plains of the eastern U.S. that are heavily forested and have rich soil.
  • cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
  • cell biology — the study of the biology of cells
  • chord symbol — any of a series of letters and numerals, used as a shorthand indication of chords, esp in jazz, folk, or pop music
  • ciliary body — the part of the vascular tunic of the eye that connects the choroid with the iris
  • coachability — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
  • cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
  • collywobbles — an upset stomach
  • columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
  • communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
  • conscionably — being in conformity with one's conscience; just.
  • considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
  • constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
  • contemptibly — deserving of or held in contempt; despicable.
  • controllably — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • countability — the fact of being countable
  • country club — A country club is a club in the country where you can play sports and attend social events.
  • crossability — the quality of being crossable
  • cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
  • cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
  • cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
  • cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
  • daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
  • day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
  • deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
  • debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
  • delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
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