12-letter words containing o, i, l
- blood typing — the classification of human blood cells to determine compatible blood types as for transfusion or organ transplant
- 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.
- bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
- 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.
- blooming oil — an oil used as a lubricant in fine sandpapering.
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- 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
- blow molding — Blow molding is a process for forming plastic objects in which plastic is melted, put in a mold, and then shaped by having compressed air blown into it.
- blow-molding — the sound of any vapor or gas issuing from a vent under pressure.
- blue melilot — a European plant, Trigonella caerulea, of the legume family, having long-stalked clusters of blue and white flowers.
- 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 vitriol — the fully hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulphate
- bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
- boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
- 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
- body politic — The body politic is all the people of a nation when they are considered as a complete political group.
- bodybuilding — Bodybuilding is the activity of doing special exercises regularly in order to make your muscles grow bigger.
- 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.
- 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
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
- boletic acid — fumaric acid.
- bolshevikism — the doctrines, methods, or procedure of the Bolsheviks.
- bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
- bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
- bombay hills — a row of hills marking the southern boundary of greater Auckland on the North Island, New Zealand
- bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
- 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.
- bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- 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.
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- 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.
- boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- boudin blanc — a boiled sausage made with light-colored meat, as veal or chicken, and without blood
- bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
- bouillon cup — a small, bowl-shaped vessel, with two handles, in which bouillon is served.
- 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.