12-letter words containing il
- bilharziasis — schistosomiasis
- bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
- bilinguality — the ability to speak two languages fluently.
- bill and coo — the parts of a bird's jaws that are covered with a horny or leathery sheath; beak.
- bill of fare — The bill of fare at a restaurant is a list of the food for a meal from which you may choose what you want to eat.
- bill of sale — a deed transferring personal property, either outright or as security for a loan or debt
- billiard cue — a long cue used for playing billiards
- billie burke — Billie (Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke) 1886–1970, U.S. actress.
- billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
- billow cloud — a cloud consisting of broad, parallel bands oriented perpendicularly to the wind.
- billy wilder — Billy (Samuel Wilder) 1906–2002, U.S. film director, producer, and writer; born in Austria.
- bimillennial — relating to a bimillennium
- bimillennium — a period of two thousand years
- bioavailable — the extent to which a nutrient or medication can be used by the body.
- birch family — the plant family Betulaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves, male flowers in drooping catkins, female flowers in short clusters, and one-seeded nuts, and including the alder, birch, hazel, and hornbeam.
- birth family — one's biological parents and siblings, as contrasted with one's adoptive family.
- bleeder tile — a terra-cotta pipe for conveying water from a drainage tile to a sewer or drain.
- blooming oil — an oil used as a lubricant in fine sandpapering.
- blue devil's — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- blue melilot — a European plant, Trigonella caerulea, of the legume family, having long-stalked clusters of blue and white flowers.
- blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
- bodybuilding — Bodybuilding is the activity of doing special exercises regularly in order to make your muscles grow bigger.
- 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.
- boil down to — If you say that a situation or problem boils down to a particular thing or can be boiled down to a particular thing, you mean that this is the most important or the most basic aspect of it.
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
- boiler house — a building housing a boiler
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- bombay hills — a row of hills marking the southern boundary of greater Auckland on the North Island, New Zealand
- bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
- bouillon cup — a small, bowl-shaped vessel, with two handles, in which bouillon is served.
- bournonville — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1805–79, Danish ballet dancer and choreographer.
- 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.
- breed's hill — a hill in E Massachusetts, adjoining Bunker Hill: the true site of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
- brilliantine — a perfumed oil used to make the hair smooth and shiny
- brise-soleil — a structure used in hot climates to protect a window from the sun, usually consisting of horizontal or vertical strips of wood, concrete, etc
- british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
- brushability — the quality of being brushable
- buffalo bill — nickname of William Frederick Cody. 1846–1917, US showman who toured Europe and the US with his famous Wild West Show
- bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
- burrillville — a town in N Rhode Island.
- 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.
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- button quail — any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica (striped button quail), occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)