12-letter words containing le
- barley water — Barley water is a drink made from barley. It is sometimes flavoured with orange or lemon.
- bartlesville — a city in NE Oklahoma.
- baselessness — The state or quality of being baseless.
- basementless — without a basement
- basketballer — (informal) A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.
- basse-taille — of or relating to an enameling technique in which transparent enamels are fused over a background carved in low relief, or to a piece, as of jewelry, so enameled.
- basset table — a card table of the early 18th century in England.
- bastard file — a file of the commercial grade of coarseness between coarse and second-cut.
- bastille day — (in France) an annual holiday on July 14, commemorating the fall of the Bastille
- battle array — the strategic arrangement of fighters and weapons in a battle
- battle clasp — clasp (def 4).
- battle creek — a city in S Michigan.
- battle dress — military field uniform and accouterments, generally camouflaged and stripped of all ornamentation.
- battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
- battle royal — a fight, esp with fists or cudgels, involving more than two combatants; melee
- battle wagon — a battleship.
- battlefields — Plural form of battlefield.
- battlefronts — Plural form of battlefront.
- battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
- battlemented — Furnished with battlements, as the ramparts of a city or castle.
- battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
- battleworthy — capable of engaging in combat; ready for battle: a decline in the nation's battleworthy forces.
- be let loose — If you say that someone has been let loose in a place or situation, you mean that they have been given complete freedom to do what they like in that place or situation, and you suggest that this may be risky.
- beaked whale — any of a worldwide family (Ziphiidae) of medium-sized toothed whales characterized by a long, narrow snout
- bearableness — The characteristic of being bearable.
- bearing pile — a foundation pile that supports weight vertically
- beautifulest — (dated) Most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.
- beautifuller — (obsolete) Comparative form of beautiful.
- beauty sleep — sleep, esp sleep before midnight
- bedazzlement — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
- bedraggledly — In a bedraggled manner.
- beetle drive — a social occasion at which a progressive series of games of beetle is played
- beetleheaded — like a beetlehead; stupid
- befuddlement — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
- beleaguering — to surround with military forces.
- belittlement — to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
- belle epoque — the period of comfortable well-established life in Europe before World War I
- belleau wood — a forest in N France: site of a battle (1918) in which the US Marines halted a German advance on Paris
- benevolently — characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings: a benevolent attitude; her benevolent smile.
- benzonitrile — a clear, colorless, viscous, poisonous liquid, C 7 H 5 N, used chiefly as an intermediate in organic synthesis.
- bequeathable — capable of being given to or bequeathed
- berkeley 4.2 — Berkeley Software Distribution
- bespectacled — Someone who is bespectacled is wearing glasses.
- bibb lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce, formed in loose heads of very crisp, dark-green leaves
- bible banger — Bible-thumper.
- bible school — a school or study program devoted to Bible study, esp at a church
- bible-banger — Bible-thumper.
- bicycle bell — a bell attached to a bicycle, used to warn others on the road
- bicycle clip — one of a pair of clips worn around the ankles by cyclists to keep the trousers tight and out of the chain
- bicycle kick — a kick in which a player throws himself into the air feet first, then kicks the ball backward over his own head