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

  • blue vitriol — the fully hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulphate
  • blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
  • 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.
  • bluefin tuna — the largest tuna (Thunnus thynnus): it has bright red flesh and is important as a game and food fish
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
  • bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
  • 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.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • 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
  • buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • butyl rubber — a copolymer of isobutene and isoprene, used in tyres and as a waterproofing material
  • cafe au lait — coffee with milk
  • calceamentum — (in ancient Rome) a sandal, boot, shoe, or other type of footwear
  • calculatable — Able to be calculated; calculable.
  • calculatedly — in a calculated manner
  • calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
  • calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • canaliculate — having a groove or grooves
  • cape-lookoutCape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
  • capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
  • carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
  • carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
  • cat squirrel — the gray squirrel, as distinguished from the fox squirrel.
  • catechumenal — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
  • caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
  • cattle guard — A cattle guard is the same as a cattle grid.
  • cattle truck — a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock
  • cattleduffer — a cattle thief.
  • caustic lime — lime1 (def 1).
  • celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
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