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

  • blister rust — a disease of certain pines caused by rust fungi of the genus Cronartium, causing swellings on the bark from which orange masses of spores are released
  • blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
  • blitzkrieged — blitz (defs 1, 2, 5).
  • block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
  • block letter — a plain capital letter
  • block system — the system whereby a railway is divided up into separate sections of track where only one train can travel at a time
  • bloemfontein — a city in central South Africa: capital of Free State province and judicial capital of the country. Pop: 111 698 (2001)
  • blood sister — a sister by birth
  • bloodletting — Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
  • bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • blue helmets — armed troops under the sponsorship of the United Nations, used for peacekeeping
  • blue melilot — a European plant, Trigonella caerulea, of the legume family, having long-stalked clusters of blue and white flowers.
  • blue norther — a cold north wind that brings rapidly falling temperatures.
  • blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • blue thistle — blueweed (def 1).
  • blue vitriol — the fully hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulphate
  • blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • blue-thistle — Also called blue thistle. a bristly weed, Echium vulgare, of the borage family, having showy blue flowers, a native of Europe naturalized in the U.S.
  • bluefin tuna — the largest tuna (Thunnus thynnus): it has bright red flesh and is important as a game and food fish
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
  • body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
  • bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
  • boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
  • boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
  • boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
  • boletic acid — fumaric acid.
  • bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
  • bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
  • bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
  • bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
  • bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
  • booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
  • 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.
  • bootlessness — the quality of being useless or ineffective
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
  • botticellian — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
  • bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
  • bottle green — a deep green.
  • bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
  • bottle-green — Something that is bottle-green is dark green in colour.
  • bottled beer — beer in a bottle, rather than from a barrel
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