12-letter words containing w, e, b
- black wattle — a small Australian acacia tree, A. mearnsii, with yellow flowers
- bladder worm — an encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm. The main types are cysticercus, hydatid, and coenurus
- bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
- blue dogwood — a shrub or small tree, Cornus alternifolia, of eastern North America, having clusters of white flowers and bluish fruit.
- blue swimmer — an edible bluish Australian swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus
- blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
- blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
- boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
- bonding wire — A bonding wire is a wire connecting two pieces of equipment, often for hazard prevention.
- bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
- bow thruster — a propeller located in a ship's bow to provide added maneuverability, as when docking.
- bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
- branch water — water from a stream, as opposed to mineral or soda water
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- breadwinning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
- breakweather — any makeshift shelter.
- breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
- brochureware — (jargon, business) A planned, but non-existent, product, like vaporware but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed to con customers into not committing to a competing existing product. The term is now especially applicable to new websites, website revisions, and ancillary services such as customer support and product return. Owing to the explosion of database-driven, cookie-using dot-coms (of the sort that can now deduce that you are, in fact, a dog), the term is now also used to describe sites made up of static HTML pages that contain not much more than contact info and mission statements. The term suggests that the company is small, irrelevant to the web, local in scope, clueless, broke, just starting out, or some combination thereof. Many new companies without product, funding, or even staff, post brochureware with investor info and press releases to help publicise their ventures. As of December 1999, examples include pop.com and cdradio.com. Small-timers that really have no business on the web such as lawncare companies and divorce laywers inexplicably have brochureware made that stays unchanged for years.
- broken arrow — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
- brown bagger — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown butter — beurre noir.
- brown canker — a fungous disease of roses, characterized by leaf and flower lesions, stem cankers surrounded by a reddish-purple border, and dieback.
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- browser skin — a changeable decorative background for a browser
- brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
- bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- cabinet wine — cabinet (def 10).
- cabinet-wine — a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding or displaying items: a curio cabinet; a file cabinet.
- capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
- collywobbles — an upset stomach
- come between — If someone or something comes between two people, or comes between a person and a thing, they make the relationship or connection between them less close or happy.
- crumble away — disintegrate
- delaware bay — an inlet of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Delaware river
- dessert bowl — A dessert bowl is a bowl in which a dessert is served.
- disallowable — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disemboweled — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- downloadable — Capable of being downloaded.
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.