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12-letter words containing l, a, b, o, r, e

  • elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.
  • elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
  • elbow grease — physical effort
  • elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
  • emblazonries — Plural form of emblazonry.
  • equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
  • equiprobable — (of two or more things ) equally likely to occur; having equal probability.
  • erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
  • exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
  • factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
  • factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
  • fall webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
  • fire balloon — a montgolfier.
  • flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
  • flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
  • flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
  • float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
  • flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
  • flutterboard — a kickboard.
  • foot-lambert — a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, equal to the luminance of a surface emitting a luminous flux of one lumen per square foot, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle. Abbreviation: fL.
  • forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
  • forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
  • formalizable — Capable of being formalized.
  • free balloon — a balloon, often equipped to carry passengers, that drifts with air currents and whose ascent and descent are controlled by the release of ballast and buoyant gas.
  • frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
  • frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
  • gambrel roof — a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Compare mansard (def 1).
  • glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
  • global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • half brother — brother (def 2).
  • half-brother — brother (def 2).
  • hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
  • halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
  • harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
  • harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
  • helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
  • heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
  • hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
  • hexobarbital — a barbiturate with hypnotic and sedative properties
  • horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
  • hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
  • hydrolyzable — Able to be hydrolyzed.
  • hyperbolical — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
  • impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
  • imperforable — not able to be perforated
  • imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
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