12-letter words containing blo
- everblooming — (of a plant) blooming repeatedly during the growing season
- full-blooded — of unmixed ancestry; thoroughbred: a full-blooded Cherokee.
- glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- half-blooded — having parents of two different breeds, species, or the like.
- impost block — dosseret.
- inkblot test — any of various psychological tests in which varied patterns formed by blots of ink are interpreted by the subject.
- late bloomer — a person whose talents or capabilities are slow to develop: A late bloomer, she wrote her first novel when she was almost 50.
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.
- loblolly bay — an evergreen tree, Gordonia lasianthus, of the tea family, having fragrant, long-stalked white flowers and egg-shaped fruit.
- loblolly boy — an assistant to the surgeon on board a ship.
- mental block — inability to recall
- microblogger — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- mind-blowing — overwhelming; astounding: Spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience.
- monkey block — Nautical. a single block that swivels.
- office block — a large office building.
- on the block — for sale at auction
- pigeon blood — dark red.
- pillow block — a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing.
- plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
- roots blower — a machine for compressing or evacuating air or gas by the rotation of a meshing pair of lobed wheels in a closely fitting case.
- saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
- sooty blotch — a disease, especially of apples and pears, characterized by sootlike spots or blotches on the fruit, caused by a fungus, Gloeodes pomigena.
- spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
- sticky blood — a condition of the blood, particularly associated with Hughes syndrome, in which antibodies tend to adhere to platelets and glue them together, leading to an increased likelihood of clotting
- warm-blooded — Also, endothermic. designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.
- western blot — a highly sensitive procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific protein in a mixed extract, as in testing for AIDS virus protein in a blood sample: proteins are separated by gel electrophoresis and transferred to a special filter paper, on which the protein under investigation can be detected by a probe, as the binding of a labeled antibody.