12-letter words containing e, o, l
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
- boletic acid — fumaric acid.
- bolshevikism — the doctrines, methods, or procedure of the Bolsheviks.
- bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
- bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
- bombe glacée — a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
- 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.
- bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
- boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
- bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
- bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
- bourne shell — (sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts. There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?]
- bournonville — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1805–79, Danish ballet dancer and choreographer.
- bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
- box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
- boxing glove — Boxing gloves are big padded gloves worn for boxing.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
- breeze block — a cinder block.
- breeze-block — A breeze-block is a large, grey brick made from ashes and cement.
- 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.
- brise-soleil — a structure used in hot climates to protect a window from the sun, usually consisting of horizontal or vertical strips of wood, concrete, etc