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12-letter words containing s, e, l, n

  • beauty salon — A beauty salon is the same as a beauty parlour.
  • bed of nails — a situation or position of extreme difficulty
  • bell gardens — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • bell housing — A bell housing is a bell-shaped extension of an engine crankcase, that contains the flywheel and the clutch.
  • belligerents — warlike; given to waging war.
  • bernese alps — a mountain range in SW Switzerland, the N central part of the Alps. Highest peak: Finsteraarhorn, 4274 m (14 022 ft)
  • bernina alps — a mountain group in SE Switzerland, extending from the Rhateian Alps on the Italian border. Highest peak, Piz Bernina, 13,304 feet (4055 meters).
  • beseechingly — to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once.
  • best-selling — A best-selling product such as a book is very popular and a large quantity of it has been sold.
  • betting slip — a piece of paper used to place a bet
  • bevel siding — siding composed of tapered pieces, as clapboards, laid with the thicker lower edge of any piece overlapping the thinner upper edge of the piece below it.
  • billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
  • bindle stiff — a hobo.
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • blamableness — the state of being blamable
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • blanket toss — a game in which a person is repeatedly tossed into the air and caught on an open blanket by a group of people who hold the blanket at its edges and stretch and relax it for each toss and catch.
  • blimpishness — actions or behaviour akin to those of the fictional character of Colonel Blimp, or the quality of resembling this character
  • blind-emboss — blind-stamp.
  • blissfulness — full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss.
  • blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
  • bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
  • blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
  • blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • 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
  • bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
  • bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
  • bootlessness — the quality of being useless or ineffective
  • bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
  • 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?]
  • brinell test — a test for determining the relative hardness (Brinell hardness) of a metal by measuring the diameter of the indentation made when a hardened steel ball is forced into the metal under a given pressure: the measure of hardness (Brinell number) is equal to the load in kilograms divided by the surface area in square millimeters of the indentation
  • brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
  • bull session — A bull session is an informal conversation among a small group of people.
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • businesslike — If you describe someone as businesslike, you mean that they deal with things in an efficient way without wasting time.
  • by all means — You can say 'by all means' to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something.
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
  • caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
  • calisthenics — Calisthenics are simple exercises that you can do to keep fit and healthy.
  • callisthenes — c360–327 b.c, Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
  • callisthenic — Alternative spelling of calisthenic.
  • calorescence — the absorption of radiation by a body, subsequently re-emitted at a higher frequency (lower wavelength)
  • candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
  • candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
  • cannibalised — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalise.
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