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12-letter words containing l, i, n, t

  • 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.
  • blossom into — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
  • blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
  • 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 whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • 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.
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
  • boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
  • 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.
  • boil down to — If you say that a situation or problem boils down to a particular thing or can be boiled down to a particular thing, you mean that this is the most important or the most basic aspect of it.
  • born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
  • 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.
  • bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
  • bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • bull-baiting — the setting of dogs on a chained or confined bull, formerly a popular pastime in England
  • bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
  • bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
  • bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • button quail — any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica (striped button quail), occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)
  • buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
  • cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
  • calculations — Plural form of calculation.
  • calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
  • caliginosity — darkness
  • calisthenics — Calisthenics are simple exercises that you can do to keep fit and healthy.
  • call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
  • call to mind — to remember or cause to be remembered
  • call waiting — Call waiting is a telephone service that sends you a signal if another call arrives while you are already on the phone.
  • callisthenes — c360–327 b.c, Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
  • callisthenic — Alternative spelling of calisthenic.
  • calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
  • calumniating — Present participle of calumniate.
  • calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
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