12-letter words containing l, i, b, e, r, a
- beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
- bearing pile — a foundation pile that supports weight vertically
- bearing rail — a transverse rail carrying a drawer or drawers.
- bearing wall — any of the walls supporting a floor or the roof of a building.
- beautifuller — (obsolete) Comparative form of beautiful.
- behaviorally — manner of behaving or acting.
- beleaguering — to surround with military forces.
- belgian hare — a large red breed of domestic rabbit
- bella figura — a good impression; fine appearance
- below stairs — People sometimes use below stairs to refer to the servants in a rich household and the things that are connected with them.
- ben franklin — Aretha [uh-ree-thuh] /əˈri θə/ (Show IPA), born 1942, U.S. singer.
- bengal tiger — a large tiger found in S. Asia
- bermuda lily — a lily, Lilium longiflorum eximium, having white, funnel-shaped flowers, cultivated especially as an Easter lily.
- bernina alps — a mountain group in SE Switzerland, extending from the Rhateian Alps on the Italian border. Highest peak, Piz Bernina, 13,304 feet (4055 meters).
- bi-quarterly — occurring twice in each quarter of a year.
- biarticulate — having two joints, as the antennae of certain insects.
- biauriculate — having two auricles or earlike parts
- bib overalls — overall (def 3a).
- bible banger — Bible-thumper.
- bible-banger — Bible-thumper.
- bicameralism — having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
- bicarpellary — (of an ovary) having two carpels
- bicollateral — (of a vascular bundle) having two phloem groups to the inside and outside, respectively, of the xylem
- bicycle race — cycling (def 2).
- bicycle rack — a metal frame for securing bicycles when they are not in use
- bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
- bill of fare — The bill of fare at a restaurant is a list of the food for a meal from which you may choose what you want to eat.
- billiard cue — a long cue used for playing billiards
- bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
- biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
- biparentally — from a biparental point of view
- bipropellant — a rocket propellant consisting of two substances, usually a fuel and an oxidizer
- bitter aloes — a bitter purgative drug made from the leaves of several species of aloe
- bitter apple — colocynth
- bitter lakes — two lakes, the Great Bitter Lake and Little Bitter Lake in NE Egypt: part of the Suez Canal
- black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
- black prince — Edward2 (Prince of Wales)
- 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.
- blatherskite — a talkative silly person
- 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
- bletheration — nonsense!
- blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
- 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
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
- brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface