12-letter words containing l, i, t, s
- ballet skirt — a full skirt, often made with several layers of fabric, typical of those worn by ballet dancers
- ballet suite — music written for a ballet but suitable or arranged for performance in an orchestral concert.
- balto-slavic — the Baltic and Slavic languages, when considered as constituting a subfamily within the Indo-European family of languages: the Baltic and Slavic branches are now generally considered by scholars as independently derived from Indo-European
- banana split — A banana split is a kind of dessert. It consists of a banana cut in half along its length, with ice cream, nuts, and sauce on top.
- barristerial — pertaining to a barrister
- bartlesville — a city in NE Oklahoma.
- basse-taille — of or relating to an enameling technique in which transparent enamels are fused over a background carved in low relief, or to a piece, as of jewelry, so enameled.
- bastard file — a file of the commercial grade of coarseness between coarse and second-cut.
- bastille day — (in France) an annual holiday on July 14, commemorating the fall of the Bastille
- bathophilous — (of an organism) living in very deep water
- battlefields — Plural form of battlefield.
- beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
- beautifulest — (dated) Most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.
- belligerents — warlike; given to waging war.
- below stairs — People sometimes use below stairs to refer to the servants in a rich household and the things that are connected with them.
- best-selling — A best-selling product such as a book is very popular and a large quantity of it has been sold.
- betting slip — a piece of paper used to place a bet
- bibliologist — a student of bibliology
- bibliopegist — a bookbinder
- bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
- bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
- billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
- bindle stiff — a hobo.
- biosatellite — an artificial satellite for carrying living organisms
- biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
- bitter aloes — a bitter purgative drug made from the leaves of several species of aloe
- bitter lakes — two lakes, the Great Bitter Lake and Little Bitter Lake in NE Egypt: part of the Suez Canal
- blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
- blastocoelic — of or relating to the blastocoel
- blastulation — the process of blastula formation
- blatherskite — a talkative silly person
- blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
- blind stitch — a type of stitch that is visible on one side of the material only
- blind summit — a point on a road where a vehicle approaching the top of a hill or incline cannot see vehicles approaching up the other side of the hill
- 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
- 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.
- blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blood sister — a sister by birth
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
- bloodthirsty — Bloodthirsty people are eager to use violence or display a strong interest in violent things. You can also use bloodthirsty to refer to very violent situations.
- bloody shirt — something, as a political issue or historical event, that can be used to stir up outrage, partisan support, etc.
- blossom into — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
- blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
- blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
- blue thistle — blueweed (def 1).
- 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.
- blues guitar — blues guitar music
- bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.