12-letter words containing o, n, e
- bog of allen — a region of peat bogs in central Ireland, west of Dublin. Area: over 10 sq km (3.75 sq miles)
- bog-iron ore — a deposit of impure limonite formed in low, wet areas.
- bognor regis — a resort in S England, in West Sussex on the English Channel: electronics industries. Regis was added to the name after King George V's convalescence there in 1929. Pop: 62 141 (2001)
- 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.
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
- bonded goods — goods which have been deposited in a bonded warehouse
- bonding wire — A bonding wire is a wire connecting two pieces of equipment, often for hazard prevention.
- bone density — the degree of compactness of bone
- boniface iii — pope a.d. 607.
- boniface vii — antipope a.d. 974, 984–985.
- boning knife — a small kitchen knife having a narrow blade for boning meat or fish.
- bonne bouche — a tasty titbit or morsel
- bonne chance — good luck
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet rouge — a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
- bonus number — (in the National Lottery) a number announced after the normal six numbers which influences the amount of prize money paid
- bonus scheme — a scheme in a company or other organization according to which employees receive a bonus if they meet specified targets
- book-keeping — the skill or occupation of maintaining accurate records of business transactions
- booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
- 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.
- boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
- bootlessness — the quality of being useless or ineffective
- bosom friend — an intimate friend
- 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.
- bottle green — a deep green.
- bottle-green — Something that is bottle-green is dark green in colour.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
- bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
- bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
- bounden duty — duty one has a moral obligation to perform
- bourbon rose — a hybrid rose, Rosa borboniana, having dark, carmine-colored flowers, cultivated in many horticultural varieties.
- 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?]
- bournonville — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1805–79, Danish ballet dancer and choreographer.
- bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
- box magazine — a rectangular cartridge holder in a submachine or light machine gun.
- boxgrove man — a type of primitive man, probably Homo heidelbergensis, and probably dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period some 500 000 years ago; remains were found at Boxgrove in West Sussex in 1993 and 1995
- boxing glove — Boxing gloves are big padded gloves worn for boxing.
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass