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

  • bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
  • boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • 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
  • bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
  • boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
  • bourne shell — (sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts. There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?]
  • bournonville — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1805–79, Danish ballet dancer and choreographer.
  • bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • 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.
  • brachycephal — a person with a brachycephalic head
  • bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
  • brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
  • brambleberry — the fruit of a bramble.
  • brand leader — The brand leader of a particular product is the brand of it that most people choose to buy.
  • brass plaque — a brass plate screwed to a wall or other structure and engraved with a name or other information, esp to commemorate an important event
  • 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.
  • break a leg! — good luck!
  • breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
  • breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
  • 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
  • breed's hill — a hill in E Massachusetts, adjoining Bunker Hill: the true site of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
  • breeze block — a cinder block.
  • breeze-block — A breeze-block is a large, grey brick made from ashes and cement.
  • brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • 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.
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • 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
  • brise-soleil — a structure used in hot climates to protect a window from the sun, usually consisting of horizontal or vertical strips of wood, concrete, etc
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • brittle star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, having the body composed of a central, rounded disk from which radiate long, slender, fragile arms.
  • brittle-star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, occurring on the sea bottom and having five long slender arms radiating from a small central disc
  • broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
  • broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
  • 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.
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
  • brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
  • bubble under — to remain just beneath a particular level
  • bubblegummer — a young teenager; adolescent.
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