12-letter words containing o, b, s, l, e
- blastocoelic — of or relating to the blastocoel
- blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
- blastosphere — blastula
- blind-emboss — blind-stamp.
- block system — the system whereby a railway is divided up into separate sections of track where only one train can travel at a time
- blocked shoe — a dancing shoe with a stiffened toe that enables a ballet dancer to dance on the tips of the toes
- blood sample — an amount of a person's blood taken from their body for use in medical tests
- blood sister — a sister by birth
- blood vessel — Blood vessels are the narrow tubes through which your blood flows.
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
- 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.
- bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
- body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
- body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
- bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
- boiler house — a building housing a boiler
- boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
- bolshevikism — the doctrines, methods, or procedure of the Bolsheviks.
- bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
- bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- bootlessness — the quality of being useless or ineffective
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
- bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- bottomlessly — from a bottomless point of view
- bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
- bourne shell — (sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts. There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?]
- box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- brise-soleil — a structure used in hot climates to protect a window from the sun, usually consisting of horizontal or vertical strips of wood, concrete, etc
- bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
- brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
- bull session — A bull session is an informal conversation among a small group of people.
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- class object — (programming) In object-oriented programming, an object of class "class" that represents a class at run time. The existence of class objects allows introspection - the ability for a program to discover and modify attributes of its own code. (See self-modifying code). A class object may also be used for "housekeeping" tasks like keeping count of how many objects of the class have been created, though this may also be done by some kind of collection object. A class method is a method that operates on class objects.
- cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
- close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
- clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
- cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.