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12-letter words containing t, l

  • bottomlessly — from a bottomless point of view
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
  • branch plant — a plant or factory in Canada belonging to a company whose headquarters are in another country
  • brazilianite — a mineral, sodium aluminum phosphate, Na 2 Al 6 P 4 O 16 (OH) 8 , occurring in yellow-green crystals with a vitreous luster: used as a gem.
  • breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
  • breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
  • breathalyzer — A Breathalyzer is a bag or electronic device that the police use to test whether a driver has drunk too much alcohol.
  • breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
  • bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • brilliantine — a perfumed oil used to make the hair smooth and shiny
  • 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
  • bubble float — a hollow spherical float that can be weighted with water to aid casting
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
  • buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • bull mastiff — a large powerful breed of dog with a short usually fawn or brindle coat, developed by crossing the bulldog with the mastiff
  • bull terrier — A bull terrier is a breed of strong dog with a short, whitish coat and a thick neck.
  • bull thistle — a tall, spiny thistle, Cirsium vulgare, having heads of pink to purple flowers: a common weed in North America.
  • bull-baiting — the setting of dogs on a chained or confined bull, formerly a popular pastime in England
  • bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
  • bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
  • bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • bully pulpit — If someone in a prominent job or position publicly expresses their opinions about a particular subject, you can say that they are using their job or position as a bully pulpit.
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • bus topology — bus
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
  • butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
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