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12-letter words containing e, o, l, t

  • bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
  • bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
  • bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
  • booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
  • 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.
  • bootlessness — the quality of being useless or ineffective
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
  • botticellian — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
  • bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
  • bottle green — a deep green.
  • bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
  • bottle-green — Something that is bottle-green is dark green in colour.
  • bottled beer — beer in a bottle, rather than from a barrel
  • bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
  • bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
  • bottomlessly — from a bottomless point of view
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • bubble float — a hollow spherical float that can be weighted with water to aid casting
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
  • bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
  • bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
  • cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
  • call collect — If you call collect when you make a telephone call, the person who you are phoning pays the cost of the call and not you.
  • call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
  • caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • camomile tea — a medicinal beverage made from the fragrant leaves and flowers of any of these plants
  • cancellation — the fact or an instance of cancelling
  • canton linen — a fabric made from tough vegetable fibers, used for table linens, wall coverings, etc.
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
  • capitol peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,130 feet (4310 meters).
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
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