12-letter words containing l, a, h, b, r
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
- breathalyzer — A Breathalyzer is a bag or electronic device that the police use to test whether a driver has drunk too much alcohol.
- breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
- breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
- british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- brushability — the quality of being brushable
- burj khalifa — a slender tapering skyscraper in Dubai; completed in 2009; the world's tallest man-made structure, standing at 828m (2716 ft)
- 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-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
- camphor ball — mothball
- carbocholine — carbachol.
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- cherubically — In a cherubic way.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- child labour — the full-time employment of children below a minimum age laid down by statute
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chlorambucil — an alkylating drug derived from nitrogen mustard, administered orally in the treatment of leukaemia and other malignant diseases. Formula: C14H19Cl2NO2
- chlorocarbon — a chemical compound containing carbon and chlorine, as carbon tetrachloride, or containing carbon, chlorine, and hydrogen, as chloroform.
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- coulrophobia — an abnormal fear of clowns.
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cyberathlete — a professional player of computer games
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
- early hebrew — noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- 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.
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- half-cup bra — a bra that covers three-quarters of the breasts rather than all of the breasts
- 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
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes