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12-letter words containing l, e, u

  • bibliotheque — a library.
  • bicycle pump — a hand pump for pumping air into the tyres of a bicycle
  • billiard cue — a long cue used for playing billiards
  • billie burke — Billie (Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke) 1886–1970, U.S. actress.
  • bimillennium — a period of two thousand years
  • biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
  • black beauty — a Biphetamine capsule.
  • black butter — beurre noir.
  • black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
  • black plague — Great Plague.
  • black spruce — a coniferous tree, Picea mariana, of the northern regions of North America, growing mostly in cold bogs and having dark green needles
  • black sucker — a hog sucker, Hypentelium nigricans, of eastern U.S. streams.
  • black tongue — canine pellagra.
  • black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
  • blank cheque — If someone is given a blank cheque, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
  • blaue reiter — der Blaue Reiter. a group of German expressionist painters formed in Munich in 1911, including Kandinsky and Klee, who sought to express the spiritual side of man and nature, which they felt had been neglected by impressionism
  • blissfulness — full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss.
  • 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
  • blood volume — the total quantity of blood in the body
  • bloodcurdler — something causing great fright or horror: a bloodcurdler of a mystery novel.
  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • blue devil's — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
  • blue dogwood — a shrub or small tree, Cornus alternifolia, of eastern North America, having clusters of white flowers and bluish fruit.
  • blue helmets — armed troops under the sponsorship of the United Nations, used for peacekeeping
  • blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
  • 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 springs — a town in W Missouri.
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • blue succory — a composite garden plant, Catananche caerulea, of southern Europe, having very hairy leaves and blue flower heads, used by the ancients as a love potion.
  • blue swimmer — an edible bluish Australian swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus
  • 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-blooded — A blue-blooded person is from a royal or noble family.
  • blue-on-blue — of or relating to friendly fire
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
  • 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
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • boiler house — a building housing a boiler
  • boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
  • bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
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