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12-letter words containing t, o, i, l, e, r

  • bitter melon — balsam pear.
  • bletheration — nonsense!
  • blood sister — a sister by birth
  • blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
  • blue vitriol — the fully hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulphate
  • bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
  • boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
  • boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
  • bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
  • 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.
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • 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.
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
  • categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
  • celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
  • celtic cross — a Latin cross with a broad ring surrounding the point of intersection
  • centroclinal — of, relating to, or designating a rock formation in which the strata slope down and in towards a central point or area
  • centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
  • centrolineal — Of lines, converging to a centre.
  • ceroplastics — the art of wax modelling
  • chalcopyrite — a widely distributed yellow mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron in tetragonal crystalline form: the principal ore of copper. Formula: CuFeS2
  • chalicothere — any of various very large extinct Tertiary horselike perissodactyl mammals that had clawed feet but otherwise resembled titanotheres
  • chlorapatite — (mineral) A variety of apatite containing chloride instead of fluoride.
  • chlorimetric — of or relating to chlorimetry
  • chloroacetic — an acid made by chlorinating acetic acid
  • chocolatiers — Plural form of chocolatier.
  • choreologist — a person who is expert in choreology
  • circumlocute — to speak in a circuitous way
  • circumvolute — To roll, curl or twist around.
  • citron melon — a kind of fruit with a hard white flesh, that grows on a variety of watermelon plant (Citrullus lanatus var. citroides): used only candied or preserved
  • clerestories — Plural form of clerestory.
  • clerofascist — A cleric supporting fascism or advocating a synthesis of religion and fascism.
  • clitorectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure to remove all or part of the clitoris; female circumcision.
  • cloisterless — a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard.
  • clotrimazole — An antifungal medication used to treat humans and animals.
  • coleopterist — a person who studies the Coleoptera
  • collinearity — lying in the same straight line.
  • color filter — colored glass, dyed gelatin, etc., used to produce certain color or light effects, as in photography
  • colorimeters — Plural form of colorimeter.
  • colorimetric — a device that analyzes color by measuring a given color in terms of a standard color, a scale of colors, or certain primary colors.
  • commentarial — a series of comments, explanations, or annotations: a commentary on the Bible; news followed by a commentary.
  • complimenter — a person who compliments
  • computerlike — similar to a computer
  • concentrical — concentric
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