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

  • beer o’clock — the time of day when it is acceptable or customary to start drinking alcohol
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
  • block letter — a plain capital letter
  • boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
  • breeze block — a cinder block.
  • breeze-block — A breeze-block is a large, grey brick made from ashes and cement.
  • broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
  • brooks's law — (programming)   "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" - a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of "The Mythical Man-Month". The myth in question has been most tersely expressed as "Programmer time is fungible" and Brooks established conclusively that it is not. Hackers have never forgotten his advice; too often, management still does. See also creationism, second-system effect, optimism.
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
  • checkerbloom — a Californian malvaceous plant, Sidalcea malvaeflora, with pink or purple flowers
  • cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
  • cock lobster — a male lobster
  • cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
  • control knob — a knob on an electrical or electronic appliance for regulating heat, volume, etc
  • dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
  • doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
  • floor broker — a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for other brokers.
  • goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
  • hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
  • jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
  • labor market — the available supply of labor considered with reference to the demand for it.
  • leader block — Nautical. lead block.
  • library book — a book owned by a library
  • nonbreakable — Not easily broken.
  • public works — government-funded construction
  • rock climber — sb who scales mountains
  • rock lobster — spiny lobster.
  • rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • stork's-bill — Also called heron's-bill. any of various plants belonging to the genus Erodium, of the geranium family, having deeply lobed leaves, loose clusters of pink, purple, white, or yellow flowers, and long, slender fruit.
  • troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • unreckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.

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