12-letter words containing l, a, y, e, t
- at eye level — at the height of somebody's eyes
- athletically — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
- attractively — In an attractive manner; with the power of attracting or drawing to.
- autoanalyzer — any of various automatic devices that test and analyze chemicals, blood, etc.
- autocatalyse — to cause an internal, self-produced, chemical reaction
- autocatalyze — To cause, or to undergo autocatalysis.
- autoeciously — in an autoecious manner
- autogenously — In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.
- baby boomlet — a period of increase in the birthrate, smaller than a baby boom, as in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s.
- bacteriology — Bacteriology is the science and the study of bacteria.
- balletically — in a balletic fashion; gracefully
- balloon tyre — a pneumatic tyre containing air at a relatively low pressure and having a wide tread
- barley water — Barley water is a drink made from barley. It is sometimes flavoured with orange or lemon.
- bastille day — (in France) an annual holiday on July 14, commemorating the fall of the Bastille
- bathetically — in a bathetic fashion
- bathypelagic — of, relating to, or inhabiting the lower depths of the ocean between approximately 1000 and 4000 metres
- battle array — the strategic arrangement of fighters and weapons in a battle
- battle royal — a fight, esp with fists or cudgels, involving more than two combatants; melee
- battleworthy — capable of engaging in combat; ready for battle: a decline in the nation's battleworthy forces.
- bayonet bulb — an electric light bulb which is inserted into the socket against spring pressure and turned so that pins on its side engage in slots in the socket
- beatifically — bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like: beatific peace.
- beauty salon — A beauty salon is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty sleep — sleep, esp sleep before midnight
- belt highway — beltway (def 1).
- bi-quarterly — occurring twice in each quarter of a year.
- bicycle path — a path designed for bicyclists
- biparentally — from a biparental point of view
- black beauty — a Biphetamine capsule.
- blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
- bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
- bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
- 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.
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- by the balls — so as to be rendered powerless
- calculatedly — in a calculated manner
- calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
- caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
- capacitively — (physics, electronics) In relation to or in terms of capacitance.
- capital levy — a tax on capital or property as contrasted with a tax on income
- carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
- carnot cycle — an idealized reversible heat-engine cycle giving maximum efficiency and consisting of an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal compression, and an adiabatic compression back to the initial state
- categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
- celebreality — a television genre that is unscripted and involves either the day-to-day documentation of a celebrity’s life or competitive challenges that a celebrity or celebrities must perform
- centennially — As part of a centennial.
- central city — the principal municipality of a metropolitan area, surrounded by suburbs and smaller towns; esp., the crowded, industrial, often blighted area
- cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
- cetylic acid — palmitic acid.