12-letter words containing l, a, r, b, o
- bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
- bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
- box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
- brass-collar — unwaveringly faithful to a political party; voting the straight ticket: a brass-collar Democrat.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
- broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
- bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
- brooks's law — (programming) "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" - a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of "The Mythical Man-Month". The myth in question has been most tersely expressed as "Programmer time is fungible" and Brooks established conclusively that it is not. Hackers have never forgotten his advice; too often, management still does. See also creationism, second-system effect, optimism.
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
- buffalo robe — a carriage robe or rug made of the skin of the bison, dressed with the hair on
- buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
- bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
- bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
- burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
- burial mound — a barrow
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- camphor ball — mothball
- carbocholine — carbachol.
- carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
- carbon cycle — the circulation of carbon between living organisms and their surroundings. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is synthesized by plants into plant tissue, which is ingested and metabolized by animals and converted to carbon dioxide again during respiration and decay
- carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
- carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
- carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
- carolina bay — any of the shallow, usually marshy, oval depressions found in the coastal plains of the eastern U.S. that are heavily forested and have rich soil.
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- child labour — the full-time employment of children below a minimum age laid down by statute
- 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
- ciliary body — the part of the vascular tunic of the eye that connects the choroid with the iris
- circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
- clara barton — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
- cloud banner — banner cloud.
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal