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

  • benzonitrile — a clear, colorless, viscous, poisonous liquid, C 7 H 5 N, used chiefly as an intermediate in organic synthesis.
  • bewilderment — Bewilderment is the feeling of being bewildered.
  • biparentally — from a biparental point of view
  • bipropellant — a rocket propellant consisting of two substances, usually a fuel and an oxidizer
  • bitter lemon — a non-alcoholic, fizzy drink with a lemon flavour
  • bitter melon — balsam pear.
  • bletheration — nonsense!
  • blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
  • blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
  • calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
  • cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
  • cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
  • cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
  • caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
  • celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
  • celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
  • center field — the middle area of the outfield
  • central asia — a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south. It includes the five former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as Afghanistan and parts of Iran, China, Mongolia, Pakistan, India, and southwestern Siberia.
  • central city — the principal municipality of a metropolitan area, surrounded by suburbs and smaller towns; esp., the crowded, industrial, often blighted area
  • central time — standard time or daylight saving time in the time zone which includes the central states of the U.S.
  • central-fire — center-fire.
  • centralising — Present participle of centralise.
  • centralizing — Present participle of centralize.
  • centroclinal — of, relating to, or designating a rock formation in which the strata slope down and in towards a central point or area
  • centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
  • centrolineal — Of lines, converging to a centre.
  • chain letter — A chain letter is a letter, often with a promise of money, that is sent to several people who send copies on to several more people. Chain letters are illegal in some countries.
  • chanticleers — Plural form of chanticleer.
  • chitterlings — the intestines of a pig or other animal prepared as a dish
  • circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
  • citron melon — a kind of fruit with a hard white flesh, that grows on a variety of watermelon plant (Citrullus lanatus var. citroides): used only candied or preserved
  • civil unrest — Civil unrest is fighting between different groups of people living in the same country, and losses caused by this fighting are usually not covered by insurance.
  • clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
  • clarinettist — A clarinettist is someone who plays the clarinet.
  • clatteringly — With a clattering sound.
  • clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
  • cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
  • collinearity — lying in the same straight line.
  • commentarial — a series of comments, explanations, or annotations: a commentary on the Bible; news followed by a commentary.
  • complimenter — a person who compliments
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