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12-letter words containing i, t, n

  • boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
  • boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
  • boating trip — a trip or holiday in a boat such as a sailing boat or canal boat
  • boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
  • 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.
  • boil down to — If you say that a situation or problem boils down to a particular thing or can be boiled down to a particular thing, you mean that this is the most important or the most basic aspect of it.
  • bone density — the degree of compactness of bone
  • boot topping — the part of a ship's hull that is between the load line and the water line when the ship is not loaded
  • 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.
  • botticellian — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
  • 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.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
  • box junction — (in Britain) a road junction having yellow cross-hatching painted on the road surface. Vehicles may only enter the hatched area when their exit is clear
  • boxing match — a competition between two boxers
  • bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
  • brain teaser — A brain teaser is a question, problem, or puzzle that is difficult to answer or solve, but is not serious or important.
  • brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
  • brain-teaser — a puzzle or problem whose solution requires great ingenuity.
  • brains trust — a group of knowledgeable people who discuss topics in public or on radio or television
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
  • 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.
  • breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
  • brevipennate — (of flightless birds) short-winged
  • 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
  • bring action — to start a lawsuit
  • bring to bay — to force into a position from which retreat is impossible
  • broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
  • brown bag it — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
  • bull-baiting — the setting of dogs on a chained or confined bull, formerly a popular pastime in England
  • bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
  • bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
  • bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
  • bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
  • bunny rabbit — rabbit
  • burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
  • burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • bushfighting — fighting in the bush
  • butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
  • butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
  • button quail — any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica (striped button quail), occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)
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