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12-letter words containing r, o, b, l

  • battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
  • battle royal — a fight, esp with fists or cudgels, involving more than two combatants; melee
  • battlefronts — Plural form of battlefront.
  • battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
  • battleworthy — capable of engaging in combat; ready for battle: a decline in the nation's battleworthy forces.
  • be on a roll — to have a series of successes; go from success to success
  • beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
  • beer o’clock — the time of day when it is acceptable or customary to start drinking alcohol
  • beer parlour — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc in which beer is served
  • behaviorally — manner of behaving or acting.
  • below ground — If something is below ground or below the ground, it is in the ground.
  • below stairs — People sometimes use below stairs to refer to the servants in a rich household and the things that are connected with them.
  • benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
  • benzonitrile — a clear, colorless, viscous, poisonous liquid, C 7 H 5 N, used chiefly as an intermediate in organic synthesis.
  • benzyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 7 –, derived from toluene.
  • beta blocker — A beta blocker is a drug which is used to treat people who have high blood pressure or heart problems.
  • beta-blocker — any of various substances that interfere with the action of the beta receptors: used primarily to reduce the heart rate or force in the prevention, management, or treatment of angina, hypertension, or arrythmias.
  • bib overalls — overall (def 3a).
  • bibliography — A bibliography is a list of books on a particular subject.
  • bicollateral — (of a vascular bundle) having two phloem groups to the inside and outside, respectively, of the xylem
  • bill of fare — The bill of fare at a restaurant is a list of the food for a meal from which you may choose what you want to eat.
  • bimorph cell — a piezoelectric transducer consisting of two crystals cemented together, used in microphones, headphones, loudspeakers, etc. to convert vibrations into a voltage output or to convert a signal voltage into vibrations that can produce audible sounds
  • binary color — secondary color.
  • bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
  • binocularity — binocular characteristics
  • biographical — Biographical facts, notes, or details are concerned with the events in someone's life.
  • biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
  • biotelemetry — the monitoring of biological functions in humans or animals by means of a miniature transmitter that sends data to a distant point to be read by electronic instruments
  • bipropellant — a rocket propellant consisting of two substances, usually a fuel and an oxidizer
  • bird colonel — a full colonel in the US Army
  • bitter aloes — a bitter purgative drug made from the leaves of several species of aloe
  • bitter lemon — a non-alcoholic, fizzy drink with a lemon flavour
  • bitter melon — balsam pear.
  • blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
  • black bryony — a climbing herbaceous Eurasian plant, Tamus communis, having small greenish flowers and poisonous red berries: family Dioscoreaceae
  • black copper — a regulus of 95-percent-pure copper, produced in a blast furnace by smelting oxidized copper ores.
  • black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
  • black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
  • black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
  • black liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the liquor that remains after digestion.
  • black poplar — a Eurasian tree, Populus nigra
  • black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
  • black scoter — a scoter of Eurasia and North America, Melanitta nigra, the adult male of which is black.
  • bladder worm — an encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm. The main types are cysticercus, hydatid, and coenurus
  • blanket roll — a blanket or sleeping bag rolled into a cylindrical pack for easy carrying and outdoor use by hikers, soldiers, cowboys, etc., often with cooking utensils, food, and personal articles carried inside.
  • blastosphere — blastula
  • blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
  • blennorrhoea — an excessive discharge of watery mucus, esp from the urethra or the vagina
  • bletheration — nonsense!
  • blind corner — a corner where the view of the road ahead is completely obscured or very restricted
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