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12-letter words containing g, l, i, b, n

  • bible-banger — Bible-thumper.
  • 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
  • biocoenology — the branch of ecology concerned with the relationships and interactions between the members of a natural community
  • bit diddling — bit bashing
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • black knight — a person or firm that makes an unwelcome takeover bid for a company
  • blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
  • 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.
  • blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
  • 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.
  • block voting — voting using block votes
  • blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blood doping — the illegal practice of removing a quantity of blood from an athlete long before a race and reinjecting it shortly before a race, so boosting oxygenation of the blood
  • blood typing — the classification of human blood cells to determine compatible blood types as for transfusion or organ transplant
  • bloodletting — Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
  • bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
  • blooming oil — an oil used as a lubricant in fine sandpapering.
  • 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
  • blow molding — Blow molding is a process for forming plastic objects in which plastic is melted, put in a mold, and then shaped by having compressed air blown into it.
  • blow-molding — the sound of any vapor or gas issuing from a vent under pressure.
  • blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
  • blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • 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
  • 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
  • bodybuilding — Bodybuilding is the activity of doing special exercises regularly in order to make your muscles grow bigger.
  • 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.
  • born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
  • 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.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowling ball — a round, heavy ball for bowling, usually made of hard rubber or plastic, with holes drilled into it for the bowler's thumb and two fingers.
  • boxing glove — Boxing gloves are big padded gloves worn for boxing.
  • brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
  • buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
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