12-letter words containing le
- apple-polish — to curry favor with someone, especially in an obsequious or flattering manner.
- appleknocker — Northern U.S. a rustic.
- appletviewer — (web, testing) A simplified web browser used for testing applets. You can't browse HTML with it but you can run applets to test them before embedding them in a web page.
- approachable — If you describe someone as approachable, you think that they are friendly and easy to talk to.
- appropriable — that can be appropriated
- araeosystyle — (of columned buildings) having an alternately very wide and very narrow intercolumniation
- archive file — a single computer file that contains one or more files that have been compressed
- argle-bargle — argy-bargy
- aripiprazole — An antipsychotic drug used in the treatment of schizophrenia etc.
- arm's-length — lacking intimacy or friendliness, esp when possessing some special connection, such as previous closeness
- artillerists — Plural form of artillerist.
- artilleryman — a serviceman who serves in an artillery unit
- artillerymen — Plural form of artilleryman.
- artiodactyle — (zoology) One of the Artiodactyla, a group of ungulates.
- asclepiadean — of or relating to a type of classical verse line consisting of a spondee, two or three choriambs, and an iamb
- asteriskless — having no asterisk
- astonishable — (obsolete) Astonishing.
- at eye level — at the height of somebody's eyes
- at the least — at the minimum
- at wholesale — in large quantities
- athletically — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
- attributable — If something is attributable to an event, situation, or person, it is likely that it was caused by that event, situation or person.
- auction sale — an instance of items being sold by auction
- authorizable — able to be authorized
- autocomplete — a feature of a word processor, email program, web browser, etc., that automatically predicts the remaining characters in a word or phrase based on what has been typed or input before: If you supply the information, your browser will be able to use autocomplete to fill out online forms.
- autodiallers — Plural form of autodialler.
- avowableness — the quality or condition of being avowable
- azophenylene — phenazine.
- b-s particle — a neutral meson with a mass 10,507 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.6 X 10 -12 seconds.
- baby boomlet — a period of increase in the birthrate, smaller than a baby boom, as in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s.
- backboneless — lacking backbone; cowardly
- backpedalled — (AU, NZ, British) Simple past tense and past participle of backpedal.
- baffle board — a plate or mechanical device designed to restrain or regulate the flow of a fluid, the emission of light or sound, or the distribution of sound, esp in a loudspeaker or microphone
- baffle plate — a plate or mechanical device designed to restrain or regulate the flow of a fluid, the emission of light or sound, or the distribution of sound, esp in a loudspeaker or microphone
- baffle-plate — a plate used as a baffle.
- baleen whale — any of an order (Mysticeta) of whales with toothless jaws, baleen in the mouth, and a symmetrical skull, consisting of the gray whale, the right whales, and rorquals
- ballet blanc — a ballet in which the ballerinas' skirts are white.
- ballet skirt — a full skirt, often made with several layers of fabric, typical of those worn by ballet dancers
- ballet suite — music written for a ballet but suitable or arranged for performance in an orchestral concert.
- balletically — in a balletic fashion; gracefully
- balletomanes — Plural form of balletomane.
- balletomania — passionate enthusiasm for ballet
- balsam apple — an ornamental cucurbitaceous vine, Momordica balsamina, of the Old World tropics, with yellow flowers and orange egg-shaped fruits
- banderillero — a bullfighter's assistant who sticks banderillas into the bull
- bandy-legged — bow-legged
- bare-knuckle — without boxing gloves
- bargain sale — an event at which goods are sold at low prices, usually to clear old stocks
- barge couple — either of a pair of outside rafters along the gable end of a roof
- barley field — a piece of land cleared of trees and undergrowth, usually enclosed with a fence or hedge and used for growing barley
- barley sugar — Barley sugar is a sweet made from boiled sugar.