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12-letter words containing s, t, i, l, b

  • 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
  • bibliologist — a student of bibliology
  • bibliopegist — a bookbinder
  • bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
  • bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
  • 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.
  • biosatellite — an artificial satellite for carrying living organisms
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • bitter aloes — a bitter purgative drug made from the leaves of several species of aloe
  • bitter lakes — two lakes, the Great Bitter Lake and Little Bitter Lake in NE Egypt: part of the Suez Canal
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • blastocoelic — of or relating to the blastocoel
  • blastulation — the process of blastula formation
  • blatherskite — a talkative silly person
  • blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
  • blind stitch — a type of stitch that is visible on one side of the material only
  • blind summit — a point on a road where a vehicle approaching the top of a hill or incline cannot see vehicles approaching up the other side of the hill
  • blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
  • blister rust — a disease of certain pines caused by rust fungi of the genus Cronartium, causing swellings on the bark from which orange masses of spores are released
  • blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
  • blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blood sister — a sister by birth
  • bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
  • bloodthirsty — Bloodthirsty people are eager to use violence or display a strong interest in violent things. You can also use bloodthirsty to refer to very violent situations.
  • bloody shirt — something, as a political issue or historical event, that can be used to stir up outrage, partisan support, etc.
  • blossom into — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • blue thistle — blueweed (def 1).
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • blue-thistle — Also called blue thistle. a bristly weed, Echium vulgare, of the borage family, having showy blue flowers, a native of Europe naturalized in the U.S.
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
  • boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
  • boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
  • bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
  • bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • 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
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • british list — a list, maintained by the British Ornithologists' Union, of birds accepted as occurring at least once in the British Isles
  • british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
  • brittle star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, having the body composed of a central, rounded disk from which radiate long, slender, fragile arms.
  • brittle-star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, occurring on the sea bottom and having five long slender arms radiating from a small central disc
  • brushability — the quality of being brushable
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