12-letter words containing o, u, r, l
- barratrously — In a barratrous manner.
- battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
- battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
- beer parlour — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc in which beer is served
- 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.
- binocularity — binocular characteristics
- biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
- blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
- black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
- black liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the liquor that remains after digestion.
- bloodcurdler — something causing great fright or horror: a bloodcurdler of a mystery novel.
- blow through — to leave; make off
- blue norther — a cold north wind that brings rapidly falling temperatures.
- blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
- 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.
- blue vitriol — the fully hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulphate
- boiler house — a building housing a boiler
- boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
- bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
- borough hall — a building housing the administrative offices of a borough.
- bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
- boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
- boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
- 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.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- 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
- buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
- buffalo robe — a carriage robe or rug made of the skin of the bison, dressed with the hair on
- buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
- bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
- bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
- bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
- bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
- burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
- burial mound — a barrow
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
- butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- calcareously — in a calcareous manner
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.