12-letter words containing e, l, g, r
- arm's-length — lacking intimacy or friendliness, esp when possessing some special connection, such as previous closeness
- astringently — In the manner of an astringent.
- astrogeology — the study of the structure, composition, and history of other planets and other bodies in the solar system
- aurene glass — an iridescent American art glass colored gold and blue.
- average life — the average time that an unstable particle or nucleus survives before it decays.
- axel heiberg — the largest island belonging to the Sverdrup group in the Canadian Northwest Territories. 15,779 sq. mi. (40,868 sq. km).
- bacteriology — Bacteriology is the science and the study of bacteria.
- badger plane — a plane for finishing rabbets or the like.
- ball bearing — Ball bearings are small metal balls placed between the moving parts of a machine to make the parts move smoothly.
- balladmonger — (formerly) a seller of ballads, esp on broadsheets
- barcalounger — a type of reclinable armchair with an extendable footrest
- bargain sale — an event at which goods are sold at low prices, usually to clear old stocks
- barge couple — either of a pair of outside rafters along the gable end of a roof
- barley sugar — Barley sugar is a sweet made from boiled sugar.
- barrel organ — A barrel organ is a large machine that plays music when you turn the handle on the side. Barrel organs used to be played in the street to entertain people.
- battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
- battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
- bearing pile — a foundation pile that supports weight vertically
- bearing rail — a transverse rail carrying a drawer or drawers.
- bearing wall — any of the walls supporting a floor or the roof of a building.
- bedraggledly — In a bedraggled manner.
- begrudgingly — If you do something begrudgingly, you do it unwillingly.
- beleaguering — to surround with military forces.
- belgian hare — a large red breed of domestic rabbit
- bell gardens — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- bella figura — a good impression; fine appearance
- belligerence — the act or quality of being belligerent or warlike; aggressiveness
- belligerency — the state of being at war
- belligerents — warlike; given to waging war.
- below ground — If something is below ground or below the ground, it is in the ground.
- bengal tiger — a large tiger found in S. Asia
- benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
- benzyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 7 –, derived from toluene.
- berlichingen — Götz von (ɡœts fɔn), called the Iron Hand. 1480–1562, German warrior knight, who robbed merchants and kidnapped nobles for ransom
- bible banger — Bible-thumper.
- bible-banger — Bible-thumper.
- bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
- black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
- black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
- blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
- blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
- blitzkrieged — blitz (defs 1, 2, 5).
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
- blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
- blues guitar — blues guitar music
- bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
- bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.