12-letter words containing i, n, l, e, r
- bipropellant — a rocket propellant consisting of two substances, usually a fuel and an oxidizer
- bird colonel — a full colonel in the US Army
- bitter lemon — a non-alcoholic, fizzy drink with a lemon flavour
- bitter melon — balsam pear.
- black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
- black prince — Edward2 (Prince of Wales)
- bletheration — nonsense!
- blind corner — a corner where the view of the road ahead is completely obscured or very restricted
- blind roller — a long ocean swell that rises almost to breaking as it passes over shoals.
- blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
- blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
- blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
- 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
- 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.
- bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
- 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.
- 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.
- brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
- brazilianite — a mineral, sodium aluminum phosphate, Na 2 Al 6 P 4 O 16 (OH) 8 , occurring in yellow-green crystals with a vitreous luster: used as a gem.
- 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.
- brilliantine — a perfumed oil used to make the hair smooth and shiny
- brinell test — a test for determining the relative hardness (Brinell hardness) of a metal by measuring the diameter of the indentation made when a hardened steel ball is forced into the metal under a given pressure: the measure of hardness (Brinell number) is equal to the load in kilograms divided by the surface area in square millimeters of the indentation
- broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
- brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
- bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
- bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- calendar api — Calendar Application Programming Interface
- calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
- cancellarial — relating to a chancellor
- cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
- caramelizing — Present participle of caramelize.
- carbocholine — carbachol.
- cardinal red — a deep, vivid red colour
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
- cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- cavalierness — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
- ceiling rose — decorative plaster centrepiece
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
- censoriously — In a censorious manner.
- center field — the middle area of the outfield
- central asia — a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south. It includes the five former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as Afghanistan and parts of Iran, China, Mongolia, Pakistan, India, and southwestern Siberia.