12-letter words containing i, n, s, b, l
- blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
- block island — an island off the coast of and a part of Rhode Island, at the E entrance to Long Island Sound.
- 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.
- blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
- bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
- blossom into — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
- blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
- blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
- blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
- blue-singlet — working-class
- 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
- 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
- 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
- bull session — A bull session is an informal conversation among a small group of people.
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- businesslike — If you describe someone as businesslike, you mean that they deal with things in an efficient way without wasting time.
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- cannibalised — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalise.
- cannibalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cannibalize.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- climbingfish — climbing perch.
- connubialism — the state of being married
- conscionable — acceptable to one's conscience
- conscionably — being in conformity with one's conscience; just.
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- convertibles — Plural form of convertible.
- credibleness — The state or quality of being credible.
- cumulonimbus — Cumulonimbus is a type of cloud, similar to cumulus, that extends to a great height and is associated with thunderstorms.
- debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
- diminishable — That may be diminished.
- disablements — Plural form of disablement.
- disbelieving — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
- distrainable — Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- east bengali — of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
- elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.