12-letter words containing g, s, l
- autogenously — In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.
- backslapping — Backslapping is noisy, cheerful behavior which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
- backslashing — Present participle of backslash.
- bargain sale — an event at which goods are sold at low prices, usually to clear old stocks
- barley sugar — Barley sugar is a sweet made from boiled sugar.
- battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
- bell gardens — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- bell housing — A bell housing is a bell-shaped extension of an engine crankcase, that contains the flywheel and the clutch.
- belligerents — warlike; given to waging war.
- beseechingly — to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once.
- best-selling — A best-selling product such as a book is very popular and a large quantity of it has been sold.
- betting slip — a piece of paper used to place a bet
- bevel siding — siding composed of tapered pieces, as clapboards, laid with the thicker lower edge of any piece overlapping the thinner upper edge of the piece below it.
- bibliologist — a student of bibliology
- bibliopegist — a bookbinder
- bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
- 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
- biosociology — the study of the evolution of social forms and the development of social behavior in terms analogous to or correlated with biological studies.
- biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
- black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
- 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.
- blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
- block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
- blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
- blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
- blue-singlet — working-class
- 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
- bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- 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
- 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
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
- bus topology — bus
- bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- caliginosity — darkness
- cape agulhas — a headland in South Africa, the southernmost point of the African continent
- capitalising — Present participle of capitalise.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
- ceiling rose — decorative plaster centrepiece