12-letter words containing g, a, l, b
- bead molding — bead (def 12).
- 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.
- belaying pin — a cylindrical, sometimes tapered pin, usually of metal or wood, that fits into a hole in a pin or fife rail: used for belaying
- 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
- belly-aching — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- belt highway — beltway (def 1).
- bengal light — a firework or flare that burns with a steady bright blue light, formerly used as a signal
- bengal tiger — a large tiger found in S. Asia
- benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
- bible banger — Bible-thumper.
- bible-banger — Bible-thumper.
- bibliography — A bibliography is a list of books on a particular subject.
- biflagellate — having two flagella
- bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
- bilinguality — the ability to speak two languages fluently.
- billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
- bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
- biographical — Biographical facts, notes, or details are concerned with the events in someone's life.
- biologically — pertaining to biology.
- black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
- black knight — a person or firm that makes an unwelcome takeover bid for a company
- black plague — Great Plague.
- black tongue — canine pellagra.
- 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.
- blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
- blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
- blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
- blind casing — (in a box window frame) a rough framework to which the trim is secured.
- blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
- block caving — a method of mining a large block of ore by systematically undercutting so the ore will cave. Compare cave (def 5a).
- block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
- 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
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
- boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
- bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
- bog of allen — a region of peat bogs in central Ireland, west of Dublin. Area: over 10 sq km (3.75 sq miles)
- boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- bombe glacée — a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc