12-letter words containing o, l, g
- battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
- battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
- battological — tending to repeat words unnecessarily
- beacon light — a light signal for shipping
- bead molding — bead (def 12).
- bed moulding — a moulding in an entablature between the corona and the frieze
- bed-blocking — the use of hospital beds by elderly patients who cannot leave hospital because they have no place in a residential care home
- begging bowl — If a country or organization approaches other countries or organizations with a begging bowl, it asks them for money.
- bell housing — A bell housing is a bell-shaped extension of an engine crankcase, that contains the flywheel and the clutch.
- below ground — If something is below ground or below the ground, it is in the ground.
- benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
- benzyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 7 –, derived from toluene.
- bibliography — A bibliography is a list of books on a particular subject.
- bibliologist — a student of bibliology
- bibliopegist — a bookbinder
- bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
- biocoenology — the branch of ecology concerned with the relationships and interactions between the members of a natural community
- biographical — Biographical facts, notes, or details are concerned with the events in someone's life.
- biologically — pertaining to biology.
- biosociology — the study of the evolution of social forms and the development of social behavior in terms analogous to or correlated with biological studies.
- biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
- black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
- black tongue — canine pellagra.
- blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
- block caving — a method of mining a large block of ore by systematically undercutting so the ore will cave. Compare cave (def 5a).
- block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
- block voting — voting using block votes
- blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blood doping — the illegal practice of removing a quantity of blood from an athlete long before a race and reinjecting it shortly before a race, so boosting oxygenation of the blood
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- 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.
- bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
- blooming oil — an oil used as a lubricant in fine sandpapering.
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- 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 through — to leave; make off
- blow-molding — the sound of any vapor or gas issuing from a vent under pressure.
- blue dogwood — a shrub or small tree, Cornus alternifolia, of eastern North America, having clusters of white flowers and bluish fruit.
- 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
- bodybuilding — Bodybuilding is the activity of doing special exercises regularly in order to make your muscles grow bigger.
- 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
- bog of allen — a region of peat bogs in central Ireland, west of Dublin. Area: over 10 sq km (3.75 sq miles)
- boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
- 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.