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12-letter words containing t, e, m, l

  • apple maggot — a fruit fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, the larvae of which bore into and feed on the fruit of apple trees: family Trypetidae
  • arithmetical — Arithmetical calculations, processes, or skills involve the addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division of numbers.
  • arm's-length — lacking intimacy or friendliness, esp when possessing some special connection, such as previous closeness
  • armor-plated — An armor-plated vehicle or building has a hard metal covering in order to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
  • armour plate — a tough heavy steel, usually containing chromium, nickel, and molybdenum and often hardened on the surface, used for protecting warships, tanks, etc
  • arrival time — the time when someone or something arrives, arrived, or will arrive
  • art mobilier — small, movable art objects, especially primitive or prehistoric works of art.
  • artilleryman — a serviceman who serves in an artillery unit
  • artillerymen — Plural form of artilleryman.
  • assemblagist — a creative person or artist who is skilled in putting together works of art based on assemblage
  • assimilative — of or causing assimilation; assimilating
  • assumptively — taken for granted.
  • asymmetrical — Something that is asymmetrical has two sides or halves that are different in shape, size, or style.
  • at all times — all the time, constantly
  • autocomplete — a feature of a word processor, email program, web browser, etc., that automatically predicts the remaining characters in a word or phrase based on what has been typed or input before: If you supply the information, your browser will be able to use autocomplete to fill out online forms.
  • autumn olive — a spiny shrub (Elaeagnus umbellata) of the oleaster family, having leaves covered with silvery or brown scales
  • b lymphocyte — B cell.
  • b-lymphocyte — a type of lymphocyte, originating in bone marrow, that produces antibodies
  • baby boomlet — a period of increase in the birthrate, smaller than a baby boom, as in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s.
  • ballad metre — the metre of a ballad stanza
  • balletomanes — Plural form of balletomane.
  • balletomania — passionate enthusiasm for ballet
  • ballottement — a technique of feeling for a movable object in the body, esp confirmation of pregnancy by feeling the rebound of the fetus following a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus
  • barometrical — (archaic) Relating to, or observed with, a barometer, barometric.
  • basementless — without a basement
  • battlemented — Furnished with battlements, as the ramparts of a city or castle.
  • beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
  • bedazzlement — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
  • befuddlement — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
  • belittlement — to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
  • bell bottoms — Also, bell-bottomed. (of trousers) wide and flaring at the bottoms of the legs.
  • bell-bottoms — Bell-bottoms are trousers that are very wide at the bottom of the leg, near your feet.
  • bewilderment — Bewilderment is the feeling of being bewildered.
  • bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
  • bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
  • 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
  • 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 market — If something is bought or sold on the black market, it is bought or sold illegally.
  • black stream — a warm ocean current in the Pacific, flowing N along the E coast of Taiwan, NE along the E coast of Japan, and continuing in an easterly direction into the open Pacific.
  • black-market — to black-marketeer.
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
  • block system — the system whereby a railway is divided up into separate sections of track where only one train can travel at a time
  • bloemfontein — a city in central South Africa: capital of Free State province and judicial capital of the country. Pop: 111 698 (2001)
  • blue helmets — armed troops under the sponsorship of the United Nations, used for peacekeeping
  • blue melilot — a European plant, Trigonella caerulea, of the legume family, having long-stalked clusters of blue and white flowers.
  • bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
  • bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
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